{"id":1284,"date":"2016-09-12T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2016-09-12T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:21:57","slug":"waiting-waiting-and-its-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Waiting, waiting&#8230; and it&#8217;s here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruel and unusual punishment is the way I\u2019d describe the second weekend in a row in which I must watch an entire day of games before <i>my<\/i> favorite team opens its season the following night. Last weekend it was Notre Dame kicking off on Sunday (bizarre) and tonight it\u2019s the Washington you-know-whos opening the 46<sup>th<\/sup> season of <i>Monday Night Football<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth yesterday\u2019s NFL action was amazing, of course, with 10 of 13 games being decided by a touchdown or less. Tonight, though, I could care less whether it\u2019s a <i>good<\/i> game, just a winning game.<\/p>\n<p>People around here be real crabby when the \u2019skins lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruel and unusual punishment is the way I\u2019d describe the second weekend in a row in which I must watch an entire day of games before my favorite team opens its season the following night. Last weekend it was Notre &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1284\">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-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}