{"id":134473,"date":"2025-08-10T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134473\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:51:10","slug":"10-weekend-thoughts-on-ole-miss-football-basketball-acc-nfl-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134473\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Weekend Thoughts on Ole Miss football, basketball, ACC, NFL and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, as we prepared to send our oldest child off to college, a friend with older children told me, &#8220;Your kids prepare you for the empty nest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t believe him then, but here I am hours after we moved our youngest into his college dormitory and those words ring true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say we won&#8217;t miss our son in the coming days, weeks and months, for we surely will, but I do think he prepared us over the past year or so for what awaits starting this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years ago, as we prepared to send our oldest child off to college, a friend with older children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-134473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115004800211903719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}