{"id":4507,"date":"2024-05-01T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:35:35","slug":"its-been-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4507","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been 30 years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A week ago<\/a> I called them the best team in hockey, and having swept my hometown Capitals I still hold that particular distinction for the Broadway Blueshirts, the team of my youth&#8230; the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>I referenced their championship 1994, noting among other things it hasn&#8217;t happened since.<\/p>\n<p>You think that&#8217;s a drought?<\/p>\n<p>How about the team with whom they share a building?<\/p>\n<p>That would be another team of my youth, the New York Knickerbockers of the NBA, who last won a title in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks have won exactly one playoff series the past decade though they&#8217;re poised to win another this week (minor setback last night).<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ve been to only one NBA Finals since&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1994.<\/p>\n<p>Caps out, Wizards long out&#8230; New Yorker Mike comin&#8217; out again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I called them the best team in hockey, and having swept my hometown Capitals I still hold that particular distinction for the Broadway Blueshirts, the team of my youth&#8230; the New York Rangers. I referenced their championship &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4507\">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-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","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=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}