{"id":136423,"date":"2026-03-12T13:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:47:05","slug":"opinion-pittsburgh-mayor-corey-oconnor-readies-city-for-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136423\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor readies city for NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5FBMRO6OMZGJDHGJDLWXYWFWVU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy drop-cap\" dir=\"null\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Newly elected Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor strolled into Big Jim\u2019s \u2014 a dimly lit shot-and-a-beer bar that doubles as a neighborhood restaurant in an area called \u201cthe Run,\u201d an Appalachian term for localities adjacent to a stream, places often driven over but not usually seen by the general public. This one, in the lower Greenfield neighborhood where O\u2019Connor\u2019s father \u2014 the late Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O\u2019Connor \u2014 lived, is no different. Commuters leaving work in the city zoom home overhead on Interstate 376.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Newly elected Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor strolled into Big Jim\u2019s \u2014 a dimly lit shot-and-a-beer bar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58181,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-136423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-partner-exclude","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}