{"id":682,"date":"2015-05-15T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2015-05-15T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:21:18","slug":"looking-forward-to-the-weekend-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward to the weekend anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way to jinx it, O&#8217;Connell.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you were not watching our local sports teams Wednesday night, two of whom produced just about the worst quarter hour of D.C. sports history with bang-bang losses in heart-breaking fashion. Not even a dramatic Nationals win from earlier in the day could save that non-hat trick.<\/p>\n<p>I still have hope the Wizards can turn it around for Game Six tonight, and then emerge victorious on Monday. In between we have the event I&#8217;ve been looking forward to all season: the final episode of\u00a0<em>Mad Men<\/em>, the show I&#8217;ve most enjoyed over the past half decade. The last few episodes have been uneven at best, but I have high hopes for the finale. More reasons to keep on living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way to jinx it, O&#8217;Connell. I hope you were not watching our local sports teams Wednesday night, two of whom produced just about the worst quarter hour of D.C. sports history with bang-bang losses in heart-breaking fashion. Not even a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=682\">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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}