{"id":6526,"date":"2015-03-02T01:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2015-03-02T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:02:26","slug":"the-final-four-all-about-college-basketballs-biggest-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/the-final-four-all-about-college-basketballs-biggest-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Four: All about College Basketball&#8217;s Biggest Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51RPO1EmKRL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1429665726\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1429665726&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=2ROPY4CHMFJPU35X\">The Final Four: All about College Basketball&#8217;s Biggest Event<\/a><br \/>\nby Mary E. Schulte (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Each year in March, college basketball teams hope to be part of one of the biggest sports events in the country. The NCAA tournament starts with 68 teams and is gradually reduced to the Final Four. But just one of them will become the national NCAA champion!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>March Madness<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery year millions of basketball fans look forward to March Madness. Broadcaster Brent Musberger first used the phrase &#8220;March Madness&#8221; while covering the 1982 NCAA tournament, and the nickname stuck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Final Four: All about College Basketball&#8217;s Biggest Event by Mary E. Schulte (Author) Booktalk: Each year in March, college basketball teams hope to be part of one of the biggest sports events in the country. The NCAA tournament starts with 68 teams and is gradually reduced to the Final Four. But just one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/the-final-four-all-about-college-basketballs-biggest-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Final Four: All about College Basketball&#8217;s Biggest Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-nonfiction-monday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}