{"id":674,"date":"2004-06-18T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/18\/and-its-the-pistons-by-a-mile\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T22:23:46","slug":"and-its-the-pistons-by-a-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/and-its-the-pistons-by-a-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"And it&#8217;s the Pistons by a Mile!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know most people didn&#8217;t expect this type of finish in the NBA Finals.  Not even I expected it.  But the Pistons played like a team.  They won like a team.  They were better.<\/p>\n<p>When the Lakers fire on similar cylinders, they are a sight to behold, but it happens so rarely.<\/p>\n<p>And in team sports, I like to see the better TEAM triumph.  Thankfully, that happened this time.  Congratulations, Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know most people didn&#8217;t expect this type of finish in the NBA Finals. Not even I expected it. But the Pistons played like a team. They won like a team. They were better. When the Lakers fire on similar cylinders, they are a sight to behold, but it happens <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/and-its-the-pistons-by-a-mile\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbotl-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}