{"id":3661,"date":"2022-05-30T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2022-05-30T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:06:44","slug":"streak-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"Streak turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest records in sports started inauspiciously on this day 40 years ago.<br \/>\nThe Baltimore Orioles were shut out that afternoon at home, collecting exactly one hit in the contest.<br \/>\nTheir third baseman was 0 for 2 with a walk.<br \/>\nThat was Cal Ripken Jr., and he wouldn\u2019t miss a game for the next 16 years.<br \/>\nShortly after Ripken\u2019s streak began I was brought into this world.<br \/>\nWhich means I must also soon be turning\u2026 no, that can\u2019t be right.<br \/>\nHappy Memorial Day, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest records in sports started inauspiciously on this day 40 years ago. The Baltimore Orioles were shut out that afternoon at home, collecting exactly one hit in the contest. Their third baseman was 0 for 2 with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}