{"id":1017,"date":"2008-03-22T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2008-03-22T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T01:29:45","slug":"pfffffhhhhhtt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"pfffffhhhhhtt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my NCAA bracket has been going&#8230;. oh, what&#8217;s the phrase? Not well. I have correctly guessed 65% of the outcomes so far, but the following teams are on my (Stephen Colbert-approved) &#8220;Dead to Me&#8221; list: Indiana University (well, like IU has ever NOT been on my Dead to Me list), Kent State, Clemson, Vanderbilt, USC, Kentucky, St. Mary&#8217;s, BYU, Drake and Connecticut.BTW, I don&#8217;t think I ever explained the method I used to pick this year. Obviously, first I went through and selected the teams with the lower # next to them. If that didn&#8217;t help, I picked who had the higher ranking in their conference. If THAT was a no-go, I picked whoever had the better in-conference season. And in rare cases where I was still confused, I used my rule for &#8220;Who will win the Best Foreign Film Oscar?&#8221; and chose the team with the goofier name (which is why I had a hard time passing Gonzaga by, but I knew in my heart that Davidson would win).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my NCAA bracket has been going&#8230;. oh, what&#8217;s the phrase? Not well. I have correctly guessed 65% of the outcomes so far, but the following teams are on my (Stephen Colbert-approved) &#8220;Dead to Me&#8221; list: Indiana University (well, like IU has ever NOT been on my Dead to Me list), Kent State, Clemson, Vanderbilt,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-get-ready-to-ramble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}