{"id":418,"date":"2014-10-01T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-10-01T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:54:07","slug":"october-baseball-doesnt-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"October baseball doesn&#8217;t disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball was dead to me for exactly one day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, greatest sport on Earth, for bringing me back in with one of the most thrilling elimination games&#8211;won by the home team no less&#8211;in a decade. Thanks, too, for keeping the damn midterm elections out of the headlines for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Coming Friday: a hundred million reasons why following sports is better than following politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball was dead to me for exactly one day. Thanks, greatest sport on Earth, for bringing me back in with one of the most thrilling elimination games&#8211;won by the home team no less&#8211;in a decade. Thanks, too, for keeping the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=418\">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-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}