{"id":2578,"date":"2019-11-22T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T02:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2019-11-22T06:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T02:30:52","slug":"jeopardy-still-bringing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy! still bringing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word on the street is that\u00a0<em>Jeopardy!<\/em> will air a &#8220;greatest of all time&#8221; tournament in January, the winner to take home $1 million. Participants will be the three players who&#8217;ve won the greatest amount of cash in the show&#8217;s history: Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer.<\/p>\n<p>Whoa. That&#8217;s murderer&#8217;s row. What a time to wish you still had &#8220;TV.&#8221; (TV? That old thing?)<\/p>\n<p>Let the record show these gentlemen have already taken<em> Jeopardy!<\/em> for $10.7 million, but this is totally not about the money. This is war, and the combatants worthy of such a distinction. It&#8217;s sort of beyond anything we see in the &#8220;regular&#8221; sports, which have championship contests every season. This is, perhaps, a once-in-a-lifetime event, akin to a heavyweight title bout or Elvis television special.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of thing I would totally buy on pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it,<em> Jeopardy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word on the street is that\u00a0Jeopardy! will air a &#8220;greatest of all time&#8221; tournament in January, the winner to take home $1 million. Participants will be the three players who&#8217;ve won the greatest amount of cash in the show&#8217;s history: &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2578\">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-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}