{"id":1695,"date":"2017-09-12T05:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T01:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2017-09-12T05:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T01:20:57","slug":"yeah-so-footballs-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, so football’s back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football’s back, but I didn’t really have much to cheer about this weekend.<\/p>\n

The few glimmers of sunshine I allowed Notre Dame to fool me into thinking they could actually win Saturday night?<\/p>\n

Or the fleeting moments in which I thought my hometown NFL team (the Washington you-know-whos) would actually improve over last season and move from average to good among the pro set?<\/p>\n

Well, it was one weekend. And at least there is baseball, sweet baseball, where my hometown MLB team (that would be the Washington Nationals) are in<\/em> to the postseason with yet another division crown.<\/p>\n

This really is the best time of the sports year, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Football’s back, but I didn’t really have much to cheer about this weekend. The few glimmers of sunshine I allowed Notre Dame to fool me into thinking they could actually win Saturday night? Or the fleeting moments in which I … Continue reading →<\/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-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","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=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}