{"id":803,"date":"2007-03-24T07:52:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/24\/and-in-newsier-news\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T07:52:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T12:52:56","slug":"and-in-newsier-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"And in newsier news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still doing OK in my NCAA tournament bracket. What&#8217;s weird is that when I look at my bracket (and I do, often, even when there are no games currently being played) all but one of my incorrect guesses are on one side of the bracket (I thought Texas A&amp;M would beat Memphis &#8211; who knew Memphis even had a college?). Other than pointless navel gazing, I wonder what that means. Ugh, I totally had Maryland going to the Elite 8 and Wisconsin going to the Final Four. I have guessed that Kansas (against Georgetown) would win the whole mess. Luckily, Stephen Colbert agrees with me, so we&#8217;re good to go if that counts for much.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the good thing is that I didn&#8217;t bet on any of this and literally titled my bracket &#8220;Oh, why not&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>::walking away, muttering about Duke and Notre Dame both losing in the first round&#8230;grrr::<\/p>\n<p>Edited to Add: What do you MEAN <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/recap?gid=200703240287&amp;prov=ap\">Kansas lost to UCLA<\/a>??? Noooooooooo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still doing OK in my NCAA tournament bracket. What&#8217;s weird is that when I look at my bracket (and I do, often, even when there are no games currently being played) all but one of my incorrect guesses are on one side of the bracket (I thought Texas A&amp;M would beat Memphis &#8211;&#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-803","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\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}