{"id":119,"date":"2017-04-27T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/04\/27\/no-draft-for-me\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:53:20","slug":"no-draft-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/04\/27\/no-draft-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No Draft For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking forward to having a great time this weekend at Stokercon&#8230; but I am a little bummed that it&#8217;s happening on the same weekend as the NFL Draft, which I usually watch gavel to gavel.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the members of the HWA are not into NFL football.  Feh.  How can they understand the true nature of horror unless they&#8217;re fans of the New York Jets?<\/p>\n<p>I guess I will need to get by this year without my annual dose of Chris Berman and Mel Kiper.  I do plan to check in from time to time.  Surely the Queen Mary has ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>If wishes were fishes, both of my teams would land running backs.   I want the Jets to draft Leonard Fournette with the sixth overall pick, and the Giants to take Christian McCaffery.  I loves me a good running game.  Smashmouth football rules!<\/p>\n<p>Many of the mocks are projecting that both teams will get tight ends instead: OJ Howard to Gang Green, David Njoku to Big Blue.  That would be good as well.  A great TE can make a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>What the G-Men need most of all, of course, is a huge road-grinder of an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets need everything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking forward to having a great time this weekend at Stokercon&#8230; but I am a little bummed that it&#8217;s happening on the same weekend as the NFL Draft, which I usually watch gavel to gavel. I guess the members of the HWA are not into NFL football. Feh. How can they understand the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}