{"id":4498,"date":"2024-04-24T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2024-04-24T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T03:16:15","slug":"team-of-my-youth-showing-its-mettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4498","title":{"rendered":"Team of my youth showing its mettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down two-zip in its series I&#8217;m started to worry a bit about my hometown NHL team (that would be the Washington Capitals). I guess that&#8217;s what to expect when going up against the best team in hockey. That would be the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers also happen to be the team of my youth, the team who brought me great joy when hoisting Lord Stanley&#8217;s cup in 1994. This was 54 years after their previous trophy&#8211;a little before my time.<\/p>\n<p>One championship banner in 80-plus years?<\/p>\n<p>I think they&#8217;re due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down two-zip in its series I&#8217;m started to worry a bit about my hometown NHL team (that would be the Washington Capitals). I guess that&#8217;s what to expect when going up against the best team in hockey. That would be &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4498\">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-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}