{"id":699,"date":"2015-05-29T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2015-05-29T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:33:04","slug":"nothing-to-see-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to see here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent scandal to rock the sports world involves no sex, drugs, or domestic violenc. Just, you know, a hundred million dollars or so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about as surprised to discover corruption and bribery among soccer&#8217;s governing officials as I am to find corruption and bribery among any other petty dictators and tinpot tyrants. Newsflash: those with goodies to give away will do so. Probably to the highest bidder. Soccer bureaucrats act quite similarly to lawmaking bureaucrats in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, soccer folks, remember to bribe the real lawmakers too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent scandal to rock the sports world involves no sex, drugs, or domestic violenc. Just, you know, a hundred million dollars or so. I&#8217;m about as surprised to discover corruption and bribery among soccer&#8217;s governing officials as I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=699\">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-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}