{"id":5602,"date":"2026-11-09T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:10:09","slug":"two-tales-of-one-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5602","title":{"rendered":"Two tales of one city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With its win yesterday in the NWSL quarterfinals my hometown women&#8217;s soccer team (that would be the Washington Spirit) moved one step closer to a third straight championship game appearance. Hopefully this time it&#8217;ll work out better than it has the previous two. My seat on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5596\">bandwagon<\/a> is secure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With its narrow defeat Saturday against the Oklahoma City Thunder (by a mere 39 points) my hometown NBA team (that would be the Washington Wizards) is, well, kind of making me look <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5563\">like a fool<\/a> early in its season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still time to abandon that wagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirit back at home again this Saturday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its win yesterday in the NWSL quarterfinals my hometown women&#8217;s soccer team (that would be the Washington Spirit) moved one step closer to a third straight championship game appearance. Hopefully this time it&#8217;ll work out better than it has &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5602\">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-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","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=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}