{"id":5389,"date":"2026-05-20T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:32:39","slug":"i-never-gave-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"I never gave up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks pulled off one of the greatest comebacks I&#8217;ve ever seen last night, something akin to the Vineland Thorns beating the Magma for the roarball Claw.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry, I watched\u00a0<em>Goat<\/em> this weekend too and have such on the brain.)<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the Knicks win the game, but because it went into overtime and they had a chance to pull away, actually ended up covering and helping bettors all over the tri-state area and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks pulled off one of the greatest comebacks I&#8217;ve ever seen last night, something akin to the Vineland Thorns beating the Magma for the roarball Claw. (Sorry, I watched\u00a0Goat this weekend too and have such on the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5389\">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-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}