{"id":1512,"date":"2017-03-31T08:02:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T04:02:45","slug":"all-i-want-for-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"All I want for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two teams I need this weekend <em>not<\/em> to play like I remember them from my youth. One would be the Washington Bullets\u2014er, Wizards\u2014who Wednesday night played much more like the hapless Bullets with whom I grew up than their 2017 counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The second would be this year&#8217;s NCAA tournament Cinderella, the South Carolina Gamecocks. Growing up I\u2019m pretty sure I didn\u2019t even realize South Carolina <em>had<\/em> a basketball program. \u201cCarolina\u201d simply meant one thing: UNC. Well, now the Heels have got company, and if I want to see any return on investment from my annual foray into basketball bracketology, I\u2019ve got to have the Gamecocks playing like their neighbors to the north.<\/p>\n<p>Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two teams I need this weekend not to play like I remember them from my youth. One would be the Washington Bullets\u2014er, Wizards\u2014who Wednesday night played much more like the hapless Bullets with whom I grew up than &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}