{"id":1254,"date":"2016-08-15T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T04:11:33","slug":"new-special-interest-big-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"New special interest: Big football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new road open to the public as of August 4 just a stone&#8217;s throw from where I live in Sterling, Virginia. The road leads to nearby Ashburn, home of &#8220;Redskin Park&#8221; (pardon the language), the Washington Redskins&#8217; training facility and corporate headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Actually the road leads right to the door of that place.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, taxpayers!<\/p>\n<p>Never more will those you-know-whos have to traverse the wilds of suburbia to get to work. The generous taxpayers of Loudoun County have provided a driveway for Ashburn types to slip off the highway to their giant bubble (I mean that literally) a few hundred yards inland.<\/p>\n<p>Price tag? Thirty million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Must be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new road open to the public as of August 4 just a stone&#8217;s throw from where I live in Sterling, Virginia. The road leads to nearby Ashburn, home of &#8220;Redskin Park&#8221; (pardon the language), the Washington Redskins&#8217; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1254\">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-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","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=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}