{"id":31,"date":"2004-03-21T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=31"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"NCAA&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <u><i>love<\/i><\/u> the NCAA basketball tournament.  Despite the obvious corruption, both financial and of the academic standards of our leading universities, the tournament itself is a study in human grit, and the best that is in these players.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford, Kentucky, and Gonzaga eliminated.  A lot of upsets this round.  Unfortunately, Duke is still involved, but you can&#8217;t have everything.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt is still in there (wahoo!) after a couple of great games.<\/p>\n<p>What is amazing is the look of determination, emotion, and joy in the players and those around them.  It must be wonderful to be that emotionally involved in something.  I hope the day never comes for these people to realize that none of this, or anything else, really matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the NCAA basketball tournament. Despite the obvious corruption, both financial and of the academic standards of our leading universities, the tournament itself is a study in human grit, and the best that is in these players. Stanford, Kentucky, and Gonzaga eliminated. A lot of upsets this round. Unfortunately, Duke is still involved, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}