{"id":5361,"date":"2026-04-22T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:01:40","slug":"on-to-important-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"On to important things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t go exactly the way I wanted, but at least this damn Virginia redistricting election is over and we can get on to more important things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NBA basketball!<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly I&#8217;m swept up in playoff fever, and I really like how TV executives are keeping these series close, even if some of the games are not.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction? I&#8217;m gonna be up for a lotta late nights between now and the middle of June.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t go exactly the way I wanted, but at least this damn Virginia redistricting election is over and we can get on to more important things&#8230; NBA basketball! Admittedly I&#8217;m swept up in playoff fever, and I really like &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5361\">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-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","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=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}