{"id":2299,"date":"2019-03-22T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T04:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:54:48","slug":"dont-b-s-the-math-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t B.S. the math teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do my best to patronize the sponsors of things I appreciate. Things like&#8230; the NCAA Tournament, which consumes my life every March. Coca-Cola already got me on that new orange vanilla flavor (delicious, by the way), so I thought I\u2019d go Pizza Hut next.<\/p>\n<p>Plus I had a coupon.<\/p>\n<p>My coupon was for a \u201cone-topping large pizza.\u201d When I was apprised of my total something seemed a bit off. I\u2019d asked for half pineapple and half extra cheese. I was charged for an \u201cextra topping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whoa, whoa. Half plus half is one. Don\u2019t tell the math teacher anything else. I nearly pulled the do-you-know-who-you\u2019re-talking-to card.<\/p>\n<p>Math expertise aside&#8230; how about my pizza credentials? Fourteen years in the industry. No stranger to \u201ctoppings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All this to show my support for a little basketball.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do my best to patronize the sponsors of things I appreciate. Things like&#8230; the NCAA Tournament, which consumes my life every March. Coca-Cola already got me on that new orange vanilla flavor (delicious, by the way), so I thought &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2299\">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-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}