{"id":5190,"date":"2025-11-17T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:17:55","slug":"not-exactly-the-trifecta-youre-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly the trifecta you&#8217;re looking for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was not the time to be a D.C. sports fan.<\/p>\n<p>In a 24-hour period&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My hometown NBA team (the Washington Wizards)&#8230; losers yesterday (11 in a row) and owners of the worst record in the league.<\/p>\n<p>My hometown NFL team (that would be the Washington Commanders)&#8230; losers yesterday on their second continent of the season.<\/p>\n<p>My hometown NHL team (that would be the Washington Capitals)&#8230; losers yesterday and last place in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d call this unprecedented (three D.C. teams losing nearly simultaneously) but yeah, it actually happened about six months ago as well (May 12 to be exact).<\/p>\n<p>Just a standard weekend in D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was not the time to be a D.C. sports fan. In a 24-hour period&#8230; My hometown NBA team (the Washington Wizards)&#8230; losers yesterday (11 in a row) and owners of the worst record in the league. My hometown &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5190\">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-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","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=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}