{"id":3472,"date":"2026-03-17T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:02:15","slug":"the-lunatic-is-a-little-overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic is a little overwhelmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is so much to do, and so little time.  And the world of college basketball just keeps giving me all kinds of things that I can write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that I need to be concentrating on getting my handicapping page started &#8211; the play-in games start tomorrow.  Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; we don&#8217;t pick the play-in games for the Stomp the Lunatic contest so you have until Thursday to make your picks.  But that doesn&#8217;t stop the Lunatic from trying to win imaginary money in his imaginary casino and showing off his amazing expertise on handicapping college basketball games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, I have to come up with my picks.  That probably won&#8217;t happen until late Wednesday night as I watch the Miami OH vs SMU game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much to blog about.  And of course, as I finished dinner and got ready to do all of this, the power went out taking out my internet.  So, instead of starting at 8 pm, I am starting at 10 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, not sure what will win &#8211; a quick blog post, handicapping Tuesday&#8217;s games, exhaustion causing the Lunatic to desperately try to get some sleep before he no longer can.  Who knows &#8211; not even the Lunatic&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much to do, and so little time. And the world of college basketball just keeps giving me all kinds of things that I can write about. I know that I need to be concentrating on getting my handicapping page started &#8211; the play-in games start tomorrow. Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; we don&#8217;t pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","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=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}