{"id":3584,"date":"2026-03-27T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:00:29","slug":"the-lunatic-is-a-mess-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic is a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My heart is still beating at a level that is probably not healthy.  Apparently, the Iowa vs. Nebraska game that started 20 minutes after the Purdue game is already over &#8211; so have no clue what happened there other than a score (congratulations to the Iowa on their continued magical run).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many thoughts going through my head.  I have been wandering my house looking for anything to eat or drink that can calm me down (without going to alcohol that will surely knock my sleep-deprived mess into unconsciousness).  I am so happy.  I was so nervous.  Trey Kaufman-Renn is my hero.  All of the Boilers are my heroes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh my goodness, there are still two more games tonight.  And they are great matchups &#8211; Houston vs. Illinois and Arizona vs. Arkansas.  I need to get my wits back so I can write something sensible about the game.   I would love to also find out what happened in the Iowa vs. Nebraska game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I need a minute.  I have lots to talk about but I need to catch my breath.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is still beating at a level that is probably not healthy. Apparently, the Iowa vs. Nebraska game that started 20 minutes after the Purdue game is already over &#8211; so have no clue what happened there other than a score (congratulations to the Iowa on their continued magical run). So many thoughts going [&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-3584","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\/3584","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=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}