{"id":3144,"date":"2021-04-09T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2021-04-09T07:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T03:47:33","slug":"one-more-word-on-college-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3144","title":{"rendered":"One more word on college basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received at my home the other day the alumni magazine for George Mason University. Never mind that I am not a George Mason alum and neither is anyone in my family, I do enjoy perusing its pages.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I turned open the front cover and found on its reverse side a picture of a recent GMU basketball game.<\/p>\n<p>With my wife and son sitting in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Well, their cardboard cutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I must be next to my wife, seated behind the support pole for the home team&#8217;s basket.<\/p>\n<p>Even my cardboard cutout gets an obstructed view seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received at my home the other day the alumni magazine for George Mason University. Never mind that I am not a George Mason alum and neither is anyone in my family, I do enjoy perusing its pages. Imagine my &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3144\">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-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}