{"id":2345,"date":"2019-05-08T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2019-05-08T07:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:46:58","slug":"what-is-more-attention-than-weve-gotten-in-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"What is&#8230; more attention than we&#8217;ve gotten in a while?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while\u00a0<em>Jeopardy!<\/em> jumps on to mainstream headlines and the general blogosphere, usually following someone who&#8217;s on a winning streak of note.<\/p>\n<p>Enter James Holzhauer, the one-man wrecking crew who&#8217;s not only winning every night on\u00a0<em>Jeopardy!<\/em> but just about bankrupting the enterprise in the process.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing Holzhauer has won 22 consecutive matches and tallied nearly $1.7 million. Among those 22 victories? The 12 highest single-game totals in the history of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he&#8217;s pretty good. What do you expect from a guy who&#8217;s job is &#8220;professional gambler&#8221;? (Yeah, that&#8217;s a job apparently. No less legitimate, I suppose, than professional game show contestant.)<\/p>\n<p>One of the criticisms I&#8217;ve read about Holzhauer is that he&#8217;s just &#8220;too good&#8221; and makes the game uninteresting to watch. Yeah, Michael Jordan really made basketball unpopular, and after Babe Ruth nobody wanted to hit home runs anymore. You&#8217;re watching a master at work. Enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>And then I get looking at the\u00a0<em>Jeopardy!<\/em> website again wondering when the next tryout is.<\/p>\n<p>In case my career as a professional gambler doesn&#8217;t pan out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while\u00a0Jeopardy! jumps on to mainstream headlines and the general blogosphere, usually following someone who&#8217;s on a winning streak of note. Enter James Holzhauer, the one-man wrecking crew who&#8217;s not only winning every night on\u00a0Jeopardy! but just &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2345\">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-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}