{"id":4873,"date":"2025-03-31T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T01:36:51","slug":"selection-committee-had-the-final-four-set-weeks-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"Selection Committee had the Final Four set weeks ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And after all that the Final Four is all the number-one seeds?<\/p>\n<p>Pfft! I coulda done that with my eyes closed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. At least I can say I guessed a few of them correctly. Exceptions being the ones I actually\u00a0<em>tried<\/em> to guess.<\/p>\n<p>So March Madness ends today.<\/p>\n<p>April Madness starts tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And after all that the Final Four is all the number-one seeds? Pfft! I coulda done that with my eyes closed. Oh, well. At least I can say I guessed a few of them correctly. Exceptions being the ones I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4873\">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-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","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=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}