{"id":225,"date":"2016-12-18T19:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2016-12-18T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:28:25","slug":"specter-of-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Specter of things to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Lion&#8217;s fans,<\/p>\n<p>The blog was down last week do to a death in our extended family.  My nephew succumbed after a long struggle with a fearsome malady and taken from this earth well before his expected time.  Our hearts are heavy with the loss of a Colt&#8217;s fan and Lion&#8217;s blog reader.<\/p>\n<p>Sundays&#8217; game with the Giants was sealed when Zenner fumbled into the end zone with the Giants getting a touch-back.  The Giant&#8217;s pass defense made life miserable for Stafford as exhibited by his completion statistics.  Stafford&#8217;s &#8216;finger&#8217; issue probably had little to do with the outcome.  As seen in previous games the Lion&#8217;s run game was miserable to non existent.  Sounding like a &#8216;stuck&#8217; record, field goal victories do not propel you very far into the playoff schedule even if you manage to &#8216;back in&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Giant&#8217;s punter, B. Wing was exceptionally effective.  Twice he &#8216;stuck&#8217; the Lions to start inside the five yard line.  Also, would someone please tell the Lion&#8217;s punt returners that north-south is the way to the opponents goal line.<\/p>\n<p>Our final two games have a low probability of favorable outcomes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Lion&#8217;s fans, The blog was down last week do to a death in our extended family. My nephew succumbed after a long struggle with a fearsome malady and taken from this earth well before his expected time. Our hearts are heavy with the loss of a Colt&#8217;s fan and Lion&#8217;s blog reader. Sundays&#8217; game [&hellip;]<\/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-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvinudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}