{"id":50952,"date":"2022-03-18T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50952"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:07:42","slug":"march-madness-oh-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50952","title":{"rendered":"March Madness? Oh, yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Whoever on Earth was able to predict that St. Peter\u2019s College men\u2019s basketball team would defeat the University of Kentucky men in that shocker of an NCAA men\u2019s tournament game deserves some kind of special mention \u2026 wherever they are, or if anyone like that actually exists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why they call it \u201cMarch Madness,\u201d correct?<\/p>\n<p>It also goes to show why I never enter any sort of bracket contest. One cannot avoid having the bracket busted into smithereens with an upset such as that.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am not going to shed a tear for those who did fil out their bracket only to tear it up into little pieces. Instead, I am going to cheer the young men of St. Peter\u2019s for their amazing victory over the mighty Kentucky Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>Let us also remind ourselves of this tried-and-true cliche:\u00a0<em>This is why they play these games.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever on Earth was able to predict that St. Peter\u2019s College men\u2019s basketball team would defeat the University of Kentucky men in that shocker of an NCAA men\u2019s tournament game deserves some kind of special mention \u2026 wherever they are, or if anyone like that actually exists. That\u2019s why they call it \u201cMarch Madness,\u201d correct? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness? Oh, yes!<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7033,9910,3240],"class_list":["post-50952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-march-madness","tag-mens-basketball","tag-ncaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50953,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50952\/revisions\/50953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}