{"id":798,"date":"2021-10-02T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:30:26","slug":"10-2-2021-hotel-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/10-2-2021-hotel-post\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/2\/2021 Hotel Post!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s 2.5 hours until game time.  I&#8217;m sitting in a hotel room after being woken up by a fire alarm after a flight that landed at 1:00 a.m. an hour drive away from said hotel room.  I&#8217;m out of town for a football season wedding*.  Yesterday my suit almost didn&#8217;t show up, my lawn mower broke, and the dead tree that I thought &#8220;yeah, I can probably cut that one down myself and save a couple grand&#8221;?  Well the tree next to it is now the sober friend hug-supporting his drunk buddy at the bar hoping he doesn&#8217;t take both of them out and get them kicked out of the bar (or crush my house)&#8230;  The optimistic view is that I&#8217;ve used up all of my bad luck for the weekend and Michigan will come out strong against Wisconsin and indicate the first satisfying season since I graduated from college**  The more likely case is that the past few days are an omen for what&#8217;s about to unfold once the ball is kicked from a tee by a guy with a foot to another guy with a W shaped object on his helmet.  Let&#8217;s all hope it&#8217;s the former because I&#8217;ve got news for all of my loyal reader out there&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Cllick for an in depth comparison between the two power 5 schools in my home state-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spider-meme.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spider-meme.png 576w, https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spider-meme-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*In my good buddy&#8217;s defense, he scheduled it on a Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">**Actually it just dawned on me that there has been one satisfying season since then&#8230; It was Brady Hoke&#8217;s first year.  How sad is that? Also now I feel old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2.5 hours until game time. I&#8217;m sitting in a hotel room after being woken up by a fire alarm after a flight that landed at 1:00 a.m. an hour drive away from said hotel room. I&#8217;m out of town for a football season wedding*. Yesterday my suit almost didn&#8217;t show up, my lawn mower &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/10-2-2021-hotel-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10\/2\/2021 Hotel Post!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-weekly-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}