{"id":3312,"date":"2011-03-19T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2012-02-03T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:17:10","slug":"session-1-game-2-10-florida-st-vs-7-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/session-1-game-2-10-florida-st-vs-7-texas-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 1 Game #2: #10 Florida St. vs. #7 Texas A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second game of the session was more exciting than the first as Florida St. defeated Texas A&amp;M 57-50 to advance in the tournament for the first time since 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I attended the NCAA Tournament at the United Center was in 2002. That day, we had at least two hours in between sessions so my friend and I walked over to Cheli\u2019s Chili Bar to hang out. However, for some reason there was no time in between sessions this year. In fact, not only was there no time, I realized there was no way Game #2 (which started at 3:18 pm) would end in order for ticket holders of the second session to enter by the time the gates were supposed to open at 5:30 pm. So I started strategizing on how I would delay my exit from the arena in order to be in the arena when they allowed people in for session #2.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the bathroom at the top of the arena and then started to walk slowly down the back stairwells of the United Center. However, at each place I ended up some security guard would usher me down to the next level of the United Center. Finally, I ended up on the first level and began walking aimlessly around until I was ushered to the exit of the United Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second game of the session was more exciting than the first as Florida St. defeated Texas A&amp;M 57-50 to advance in the tournament for the first time since 1998.<br \/>\nThe last time I attended the NCAA Tournament at the United Center was in 2002. That day, we had at least two hours in between sessions so my friend and I walked over to Cheli\u2019s Chili Bar to hang out. However, for some reason there was no time in between sessions this year. In fact, not only was there no time, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,166,236],"tags":[362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}