{"id":1622,"date":"2013-10-28T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2017-09-06T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:06:52","slug":"feetsballin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/10\/28\/feetsballin\/","title":{"rendered":"Feetsballin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed yesterday&#39;s NFL action.&nbsp; I was up on Melinda&#39;s mountain with&nbsp; my Wild Cards writers, hammering out the plot of HIGH STAKES, our next mosaic novel.&nbsp; Didn&#39;t see a single play.<\/p>\n<p>Probably a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets lost ignominiously to the Bengals.&nbsp; After a great game against the Pats, Geno Smith reverted to being terrible.&nbsp; And Andy Dalton and guys in stripes shredded and embarrassed the vaunted Jets D.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants won over the Iggles and their third-string QB.&nbsp; Hard to celebrate this one.&nbsp; They did not even score a TD, winning with five (5) field goals.&nbsp; And yet somehow at 2-6 there are people talking about the G-Men making a run for the playoffs.&nbsp; Hoo hah.&nbsp; Yes, they are &quot;only&quot; two games out, but only because everyone else in the NFC East is terrible as well.&nbsp; Even those two recent victories have not been encouraging&#8230; the Giants played badly in both, and only won because the other team played even worse.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, no, I do not think Big Blue is about to make a Super Bowl run.&nbsp; If you do, I have some great real estate on Mars I would like to sell you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m off to Australia and New Zealand shortly, for almost a month of appearances down there, so I&#39;m going to miss pretty much all of the NFL action in November.&nbsp; The way this season has been going, I don&#39;t think I&#39;m going to miss much at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed yesterday&#39;s NFL action.&nbsp; I was up on Melinda&#39;s mountain with&nbsp; my Wild Cards writers, hammering out the plot of HIGH STAKES, our next mosaic novel.&nbsp; Didn&#39;t see a single play. Probably a good thing. The Jets lost ignominiously to the Bengals.&nbsp; After a great game against the Pats, Geno Smith reverted to being [&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\/1622"}],"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=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}