{"id":4804,"date":"2025-01-27T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2025-01-27T05:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T01:44:31","slug":"this-one-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"This one Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing my hometown NFL team&#8211;that would be the Washington Commanders&#8211;play in the NFC Championship game yesterday was kind of a thrill&#8230; until about 18 seconds after their opponents touched the ball. Philadelphia&#8217;s early score may have been a sign of things to come, though I didn&#8217;t really expect the thrashing to be as thorough as it was. True that we have seen worse, if one remembers a game from 1940. That one involved the Commanders too (by their previous name), and people\u00a0<em>do<\/em> still talk about it 85 years later.<\/p>\n<p>At least I didn&#8217;t take the hat trick on championship game losses. It could have been worse had I watched the Yankees, Notre Dame, and the Commanders all lose in championship games. Still, I would have liked to see the chance, risky as it may have been.<\/p>\n<p>Wait &#8217;til next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing my hometown NFL team&#8211;that would be the Washington Commanders&#8211;play in the NFC Championship game yesterday was kind of a thrill&#8230; until about 18 seconds after their opponents touched the ball. Philadelphia&#8217;s early score may have been a sign of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4804\">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-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","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=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}