{"id":818,"date":"2015-08-28T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2015-08-28T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:05:21","slug":"nfl-fever-is-already-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"NFL fever is already here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever felt a breathless anticipation for a preseason football game as I have for tomorrow&#8217;s beltway battle between the Washington Redskins and the Ravens of Baltimore. Meaningless exhibition? Hardly. You&#8217;d think the Super Bowl, Presidential election, and all future sunrises were riding on this contest.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I live here that I think this is getting so much attention. Maybe it&#8217;s because I live in an area where people just love to talk. Or maybe it really is that important.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, do not attempt to contact me between 7 and 11 p.m. tomorrow evening. There&#8217;s a meaningless exhibition game for me to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever felt a breathless anticipation for a preseason football game as I have for tomorrow&#8217;s beltway battle between the Washington Redskins and the Ravens of Baltimore. Meaningless exhibition? Hardly. You&#8217;d think the Super Bowl, Presidential election, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=818\">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-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}