{"id":4981,"date":"2025-06-23T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:40:01","slug":"thunder-win-championship-so-i-am-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"Thunder win championship&#8230; so I am told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current location: Atlantic City, New Jersey, for my annual pilgrimage to said town. I&#8217;m working my way on doing everything here but for two things. One, I don&#8217;t plan to spend a nickel at any slot machine or gaming table. Two, I did not watch any of Game Seven of the NBA Finals. Yeah, my hotel room TV did not have ESPN.\u00a0<em>Didn&#8217;t have ESPN<\/em>. Kind of unbelievable, actually, but then, the result of the game was the thing I could have told you two months ago: team with best record in regular season also wins championship.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder just played along with a few losses to make this look good on TV.<\/p>\n<p>For those who had TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current location: Atlantic City, New Jersey, for my annual pilgrimage to said town. I&#8217;m working my way on doing everything here but for two things. One, I don&#8217;t plan to spend a nickel at any slot machine or gaming table. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4981\">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-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","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=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}