{"id":3125,"date":"2021-03-17T05:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2021-03-17T05:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:39:36","slug":"three-cheers-for-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3125","title":{"rendered":"Three cheers for upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among other oddities regarding this year&#8217;s NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament there is this: three schools from upstate New York (<em>real<\/em> upstate New York) are dancin&#8217; in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Syracuse, St. Bonaventure, and Colgate all made the Big Dance?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Yup. Never!<\/p>\n<p>Add in &#8220;upstate&#8221; New York Iona (it&#8217;s upstate if you live in the city or &#8220;way the hell upstate&#8221; if you live on Long Island) and you&#8217;ve got a new Tobacco Road along the Hudson-Erie Corridor.<\/p>\n<p><em>This<\/em> is basketball country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other oddities regarding this year&#8217;s NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament there is this: three schools from upstate New York (real upstate New York) are dancin&#8217; in 2021. The last time Syracuse, St. Bonaventure, and Colgate all made the Big Dance? &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3125\">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-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","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=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}