{"id":5433,"date":"2026-07-01T15:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:42:35","slug":"soccer-on-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5433","title":{"rendered":"Soccer on the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing is a greater indication of the changing face of America the last 250 years than the fact that as we approach our semiquincentennial the biggest thought on American minds is…<\/p>\n

soccer.<\/p>\n

Here’s to 250 more years and five more American soccer victories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing is a greater indication of the changing face of America the last 250 years than the fact that as we approach our semiquincentennial the biggest thought on American minds is… soccer. Here’s to 250 more years and five more … Continue reading →<\/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-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","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=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}