{"id":5151,"date":"2025-10-08T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:30:26","slug":"not-ready-to-give-up-on-baseball-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5151","title":{"rendered":"Not ready to give up on baseball just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One down, two to go, for the Bronx Bombers. I&#8217;m not sure what good I did to deserve this, or what deal I&#8217;ll have to make with what devil going forward, but if I&#8217;ve got to pull some upside-down version of Joe Hardy shenanigans I&#8217;m prepared. File it under\u00a0<em>worth it<\/em> because last night was like ambrosia on TV.<\/p>\n<p><em>TV<\/em>. Ha. That thing that lets me watch the baseball picture. I&#8217;m hooked for at least one more day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One down, two to go, for the Bronx Bombers. I&#8217;m not sure what good I did to deserve this, or what deal I&#8217;ll have to make with what devil going forward, but if I&#8217;ve got to pull some upside-down version &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5151\">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-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","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=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5152,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}