{"id":4800,"date":"2025-01-22T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T04:07:18","slug":"no-silver-medal-for-second-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4800","title":{"rendered":"No silver medal for second place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night&#8217;s College Football Playoff finale didn&#8217;t exactly work out as I had hoped, though I suppose it sort of did work out exactly as I&#8217;d suspected. Over the past 35 years I&#8217;ve gotten used to Notre Dame&#8217;s football team being\u00a0<em>pretty good<\/em>, not a champion however.<\/p>\n<p>I could say the same thing for my beloved New York Yankees the past 15 years: pretty good, not a champion. And with them it&#8217;s even more embarrassing because they spend so much more money.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I&#8217;m not sure whether the Yankees or the University of Notre Dame spends more money on their near misses; I just know I&#8217;ve seen two silver medals in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for great seasons, guys, but if the Commanders lose in the Super Bowl I&#8217;m launching an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night&#8217;s College Football Playoff finale didn&#8217;t exactly work out as I had hoped, though I suppose it sort of did work out exactly as I&#8217;d suspected. Over the past 35 years I&#8217;ve gotten used to Notre Dame&#8217;s football team &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4800\">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-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}