{"id":792,"date":"2015-08-05T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:21:29","slug":"baseball-continues-to-dominate-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Baseball continues to dominate this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for last night&#8217;s cliffhanger win, or I&#8217;d be calling the Nats, losers of four in a row, victims of the <a title=\"Give them the pennant\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=788\" target=\"_blank\">mikeoconnelljr.com<\/a> curse. Indeed, before last night&#8217;s victory the Washington Nationals hadn&#8217;t won a game since I called them a pennant lock, and had fallen into second place in the NL East. Still, as they say in baseball,\u00a0<em>it&#8217;s a long season<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the American League front, I hope you were watching last night my beloved New York Yankees trounce the once-mighty Boston Red Sox. The Bronx Bombers blew open a tight 4-3 game with nine runs in the seventh inning. They&#8217;re now five and a half games up in their division, and at the risk of yet another MOC &#8220;cover&#8221; curse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Give them the pennant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for last night&#8217;s cliffhanger win, or I&#8217;d be calling the Nats, losers of four in a row, victims of the mikeoconnelljr.com curse. Indeed, before last night&#8217;s victory the Washington Nationals hadn&#8217;t won a game since I called them &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=792\">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-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}