{"id":4458,"date":"2024-03-18T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2024-03-18T06:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T02:23:51","slug":"brackets-are-out-wolfpack-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4458","title":{"rendered":"Brackets are out, Wolfpack are in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ghost of Jim Valvano was smiling down on the North Carolina State Wolfpack Saturday night as the boys from my one-time hometown put together an improbable victory over the University of North Carolina in the ACC Tournament championship game. A game which happened to be played down the street from me in my\u00a0<em>current<\/em> hometown. But that&#8217;s not even the most interesting part.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at guard for State is one Michael O&#8217;Connell. It&#8217;s not me, and this young man is no relation, but he is from New York (Long Island, actually), and has brought great honor to this already great name.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; let the Dancin&#8217; begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ghost of Jim Valvano was smiling down on the North Carolina State Wolfpack Saturday night as the boys from my one-time hometown put together an improbable victory over the University of North Carolina in the ACC Tournament championship game. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4458\">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-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","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=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}