{"id":4042,"date":"2023-04-03T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2023-04-03T09:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:32:47","slug":"well-im-sure-itll-still-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"Well, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll still be great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday&#8217;s episode of\u00a0<em>Math and Musings<\/em> I described my lack of surprise that neither the Houston Cougars nor Texas Longhorns made the Final Four. These are kids playing a game, and one of the things kids do is look past something important to something fanciful. Like looking past the &#8220;easy&#8221; game that sets up the pretty one.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: prospect of an all-Florida final pitting two schools separated by just 45 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it woulda been cool,\u00a0but both teams are watching tonight&#8217;s game from the bleachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday&#8217;s episode of\u00a0Math and Musings I described my lack of surprise that neither the Houston Cougars nor Texas Longhorns made the Final Four. These are kids playing a game, and one of the things kids do is look past &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4042\">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-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","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=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}