{"id":2189,"date":"2018-12-12T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2018-12-12T09:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:37:05","slug":"big-5-contest-brings-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Big 5 contest brings it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instant classic last night from the Palestra in Philadelphia, with the Quakers of Penn defeating the Wildcats of Villanova, 78-75.<\/p>\n<p>Notable? Yeah, the Wildcats hadn\u2019t lost a Big 5 game in more than six years. Two national championships in that span.<\/p>\n<p>College basketball gets no better than this:playing for city pride. Basketball\u2019s a city game, no? Played in the Cathedral of College Basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Just another Tuesday night in December.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I love Christmastime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instant classic last night from the Palestra in Philadelphia, with the Quakers of Penn defeating the Wildcats of Villanova, 78-75. Notable? Yeah, the Wildcats hadn\u2019t lost a Big 5 game in more than six years. Two national championships in that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2189\">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-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","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=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}