{"id":5549,"date":"2026-10-12T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:35:35","slug":"bizarre-piled-on-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5549","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre piled on bizarre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have noted <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5518\">before<\/a> that my hometown NFL team&#8211;that would be the Washington Commanders&#8211;tends to find new and unusual ways to ruin a Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I usually mean is, they find a stupid way to lose a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday afternoon at Northwest Stadium they did the home crowd one better, finding a stupid way to <em>tie<\/em> a football game. Should have won in regulation, definitely should have won in overtime. (Watch the final play if you&#8217;ve got the stomach for it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something tells me, though, this won&#8217;t be the last time I&#8217;m #smh this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#smh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have noted before that my hometown NFL team&#8211;that would be the Washington Commanders&#8211;tends to find new and unusual ways to ruin a Sunday. What I usually mean is, they find a stupid way to lose a game. Yesterday afternoon &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5549\">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-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","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=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}