{"id":4101,"date":"2023-05-29T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:37:30","slug":"memorial-day-has-been-overtaken-by-game-sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4101","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day has been overtaken by Game Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of a Memorial Day sudden-death NBA playoff game in Boston, though historically I&#8217;ve had some bad luck with such. (I had my car broken into in Boston back in May &#8217;08 while watching the Celtics play the Pistons. Not a Game Seven nor Memorial Day proper, but just as raucous and, well, memorable.)<\/p>\n<p>Game Seven tonight comes to the American South as well, as the Dallas Stars host the Golden Knights of Las Vegas in the NHL&#8217;s Western Conference Finals. Winner will play the Florida Panthers for the Stanley Cup as Stanley rolls over in his grave watching warm-weather teams compete for his eponymous award.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day? We&#8217;re all spending the day looking at our watches waiting for the action to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of a Memorial Day sudden-death NBA playoff game in Boston, though historically I&#8217;ve had some bad luck with such. (I had my car broken into in Boston back in May &#8217;08 while watching the Celtics play &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4101\">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-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","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=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}