{"id":4790,"date":"2025-01-13T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:16:44","slug":"calendar-says-winter-but-this-is-still-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4790","title":{"rendered":"Calendar says winter but this is still football season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Doink.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was the most beautiful sound I&#8217;ve heard in quite some time, the pleasant clang of a football careening off a goalpost, just right, to bring happiness to the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>My hometown NFL team (that would be the Washington Commanders) survived an incredible back-and-forth game last night in Tampa Bay, Washington&#8217;s first playoff win in 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll call this one the luck of the uprights, following the luck of the Irish I witnessed last Thursday night as the college football team of my youth and beyond (that would be the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame) secured a spot in the finals of this year&#8217;s College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Everything&#8217;s comin&#8217; up Mikey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doink. It was the most beautiful sound I&#8217;ve heard in quite some time, the pleasant clang of a football careening off a goalpost, just right, to bring happiness to the nation&#8217;s capital. My hometown NFL team (that would be the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4790\">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-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","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=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}