{"id":1411,"date":"2010-03-18T22:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T05:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2010-03-18T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T06:40:27","slug":"holliday-vs-the-president-vs-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/03\/18\/holliday-vs-the-president-vs-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Holliday vs. the President vs. the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the bracket prediction standings after the first day of the NCAA Tournament:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barack Obama (President of the United States of America): <a href=\"http:\/\/games.espn.go.com\/tcmen\/en\/entry?entryID=3288143\">120 points<\/a> &#8211; overall rank: 96.9%.<\/li>\n<li>Lebron James (NBA Superstar): <a href=\"http:\/\/games.espn.go.com\/tcmen\/en\/entry?entryID=5072080\">90 points<\/a> &#8211; overall rank: 38.3%.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Holliday (34 year-old bald man): <a href=\"http:\/\/games.espn.go.com\/tcmen\/en\/entry?entryID=701026\">110 points<\/a> &#8211; overall rank: 87.4%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barry and I were tied until Wake Forest hit a last-second shot over Texas, meanwhile Lebron can start making up lost ground on both of us if fourth-ranked Purdue beats 13th-ranked Siena tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I convinced Audrey, who watches no sports whatsoever, to fill out a bracket, and she currently has <a href=\"http:\/\/games.espn.go.com\/tcmen\/en\/entry?entryID=1019533\">80 points<\/a>, tying her with legendary basketball analyst <a href=\"http:\/\/games.espn.go.com\/tcmen\/en\/entry?entryID=3657824\">Dick Vitale<\/a> (overall rank: 13.2%) despite the fact her rationale for making picks included &#8220;I have a cousin named Siena&#8221; and &#8220;Wofford is a really funny name for a college&#8221;.  If she beats me the shame will not be bearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the bracket prediction standings after the first day of the NCAA Tournament: Barack Obama (President of the United States of America): 120 points &#8211; overall rank: 96.9%. Lebron James (NBA Superstar): 90 points &#8211; overall rank: 38.3%. Ryan Holliday (34 year-old bald man): 110 points &#8211; overall rank: 87.4%. Barry and I were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/03\/18\/holliday-vs-the-president-vs-the-king\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holliday vs. the President vs. the King&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}