{"id":4170,"date":"2023-07-17T07:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2023-07-17T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:57:20","slug":"sometimes-i-follow-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I follow the crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new obsession is the one everyone has these days&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immaculategrid.com\/\">Immaculate Grid<\/a>, now presented by baseball-reference.com (my previous obsession).<\/p>\n<p>Basically a cross between Wordle, Sudoku, tic-tac-toe, and the back of a baseball card, Immaculate Grid is my life in a 3X3 box.<\/p>\n<p>The embarrassing part about my performance each day (each <em>night,<\/em> actually, as I always log in for the new game at midnight) is that I&#8217;m much better at the stats questions than the teams questions, as in, who played for X team and Y team? Those are likely to be players from this century (the hyper-free agency era), players I&#8217;m much less likely to know. I don&#8217;t even care about the &#8220;bonus&#8221; or whatever it is for the rare pick (there&#8217;s a formula); I&#8217;m just happy for a match.<\/p>\n<p>It really does set the tone for the whole day.<\/p>\n<p>And as I type this I&#8217;ve got three minutes until the next puzzle&#8230; excuse me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new obsession is the one everyone has these days&#8230; Immaculate Grid, now presented by baseball-reference.com (my previous obsession). Basically a cross between Wordle, Sudoku, tic-tac-toe, and the back of a baseball card, Immaculate Grid is my life in a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4170\">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-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}