{"id":4067,"date":"2023-04-26T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:11:33","slug":"if-they-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4067","title":{"rendered":"If They Read This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Front-page headline of Loudoun County Virginia&#8217;s paper of record (that would be the Loudoun\u00a0<em>Times-Mirror<\/em>) this week reads: &#8220;If They Build It&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4064\">aforementioned<\/a> stadium project (potential one, anyway) in my backyard, potentially the potential home of the organization formerly known as the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0<em>they<\/em> build it. Like some mysterious\u00a0<em>Field of Dreams<\/em>-like spirits are coming to Loudoun County and building the stadium themselves.<\/p>\n<p>As alluded to <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4064\">Monday<\/a> I have no doubt this project would include a heavy burden on Joe Q. Taxpayer, whom I suppose politicians would rather refer to as &#8220;they.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds so much nicer than &#8220;your wallet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front-page headline of Loudoun County Virginia&#8217;s paper of record (that would be the Loudoun\u00a0Times-Mirror) this week reads: &#8220;If They Build It&#8230;&#8221; This is a reference to the aforementioned stadium project (potential one, anyway) in my backyard, potentially the potential home &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4067\">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-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","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=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}