{"id":1078,"date":"2017-03-24T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2017-03-24T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:40:30","slug":"sweet-16-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Sweet 16 has begun\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And as you would expect with games at this level, they are both close (both are one point games as I type this).<\/p>\n<p>But to add some humor, Katie had to pick her second chance picks &#8211; she puts up with this time of year but she really would rather do something else. &nbsp;So, we decided a fun way to do the picks &#8211; by random chance.<\/p>\n<p>Katie grabbed a die from our Yahtzee game, and picked the favorite when she rolled a 1,2 or 3 and the upset when she rolled the higher numbers. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could also see it totally happening, she took the dice all the way to the championship game &#8211; Arizona beating Florida and UNC beating Purdue. &nbsp;Then, she rolled the die and it was a 5 &#8211; Arizona wins the championship. &nbsp; And she said, I don&#8217;t want to pick against North Carolina &#8211; that&#8217;s grandpa&#8217;s school (I thought it was funny the random dice picked UNC and Purdue in the first place).<\/p>\n<p>So, I said &#8211; well lets do 2 out of 3 for the championship &#8211; she rolled a 6. &nbsp;And she looked at me with a frown. &nbsp;I said, &#8220;Do you just want to pick UNC &#8211; that is OK &#8211; you can do what you want!&#8221;. &nbsp; &nbsp;Katie nodded and thus, picks UNC to beat Arizona for the championship. &nbsp; Because that is how we roll at the Lunatic&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And as you would expect with games at this level, they are both close (both are one point games as I type this). But to add some humor, Katie had to pick her second chance picks &#8211; she puts up with this time of year but she really would rather do something else. &nbsp;So, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}