{"id":21299,"date":"2024-04-06T07:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2024-04-01T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:51:15","slug":"hope-springs-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hope-springs-eternal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Springs Eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024FFff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21303\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024FFff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024FFff.jpg 714w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024FFff-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a>Only four teams remain standing following a tournament filled with minor upsets.\u00a0 My bracket is busted and my Final Four predictions, save one, are completely toast.\u00a0 But, how about that one.\u00a0 Purdue finds itself in the Final Four for just the third time ever and the first time since 1980, so the hope remains alive for this weekend.\u00a0 Purdue faces 11-seed NC State tonight, and wouldn&#8217;t losing to a double-digit seed be a way to go out after these last three years, with defending champion UCONN and Alabama in the other game.\u00a0 The winners face off on Monday for the national championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only four teams remain standing following a tournament filled with minor upsets.\u00a0 My bracket is busted and my Final Four predictions, save one, are completely toast.\u00a0 But, how about that one.\u00a0 Purdue finds itself in the Final Four for just the third time ever and the first time since 1980, so the hope remains alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[2134,289,2129,1527,2097],"class_list":["post-21299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-alabama","tag-boiler-up","tag-nc-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-uconn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21305,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions\/21305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}