{"id":376946,"date":"2016-08-21T21:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=376946"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:15","slug":"preseason-ritual-makes-redskins-fans-foolishly-believe-in-what-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=376946","title":{"rendered":"Preseason ritual makes Redskins fans foolishly believe in what we see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has got to be a name for the psychological exercise football fans go through every preseason \u2014 the annual ritual of watching something unfold with our own eyes, yet trying to convince ourselves it is not real.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year, we see NFL preseason performances by individuals and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/aug\/21\/preseason-ritual-makes-redskins-fans-foolishly-bel\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/aug\/21\/preseason-ritual-makes-redskins-fans-foolishly-bel\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Preseason ritual makes Redskins fans foolishly believe in what we see\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS\/OPINION: There has got to be a name for the psychological exercise football fans go through every preseason \u2014 the annual ritual of watching something unfold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907504,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376946\/revisions\/1907504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}