{"id":3228,"date":"2025-03-22T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2025-03-22T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:14:11","slug":"the-lunatic-is-super-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic is super excited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, the Lunatic is doing surprisingly well on his handicapping page, especially with picking the over\/under bets.  This is even more surprising considering that many of his picks have been made between midnight and 3 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that success isn\u2019t the main reason that he is super excited.  The Lunatic has managed to finish picking all 8 of Saturday\u2019s games.  The thought that I can consider going to bed after the last game ends instead of turning on Law &amp; Order: SVU so I have something on in the background to try to keep me awake while I pick the games is super appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, as I made my last 4 picks, I had to go back into the comment section and remove the character that was showing up for 10-15 straight characters as I momentarily nodded off with my finger on the keyboard.  So the thought of going to sleep before 2:30 am is making the Lunatic super happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I keep doing this well, the Lunatic Casino is going to start comping me to try to keep me in the sportsbook.  They have one of the best imaginary buffets around &#8211; delicious roast beef.  I can see a casino representative coming towards me now &#8211; please Mr. Lunatic &#8211; stay up ridiculously late and possibly make some bad bets while you are here.  Why don\u2019t you get some food to give yourself some strength?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Lunatic is doing surprisingly well on his handicapping page, especially with picking the over\/under bets. This is even more surprising considering that many of his picks have been made between midnight and 3 am. But that success isn\u2019t the main reason that he is super excited. The Lunatic has managed to finish picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}