{"id":3315,"date":"2011-03-19T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2012-02-09T19:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T01:03:35","slug":"session-2-game-1-14-st-peters-vs-3-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/session-2-game-1-14-st-peters-vs-3-purdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 2 Game #1: #14 St. Peter\u2019s vs. #3 Purdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I exited the arena, I began asking for extra tickets from the Purdue fans that were lined up at the gate to enter the arena. As I asked for extra tickets one young man said he had an extra and handed me the ticket. Since he was young, I was 1) surprised he had an extra ticket and 2) that he was giving it away for free. Turns out he worked for somebody at the Chicago Board of Trade who gave him the tickets. So he to giveaway the second ticket after he called all of his friends and none of them could go. That\u2019s something I would have done when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/uploaded_images\/2011\/03\/P3180186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3316\" title=\"NCAA Tournament at United Center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/uploaded_images\/2011\/03\/P3180186-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"NCAA Tournament at United Center\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">#14 St. Peter\u2019s vs. #3 Purdue<\/span><br \/>\nThe gates finally opened for the second session about 6 pm and the first game of the session tipped off at 6:20 pm \u2013 not much time between allowing fans to enter the arena and starting a game. This game was nowhere near close as Purdue cruised to a 65-43 victory over St. Peter\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I exited the arena, I began asking for extra tickets from the Purdue fans that were lined up at the gate to enter the arena. As I asked for extra tickets one young man said he had an extra and handed me the ticket. Since he was young, I was 1) surprised he had an extra ticket and 2) that he was giving it away for free. Turns out he worked for somebody at the Chicago Board of Trade who gave him the tickets. So he to giveaway the &#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":[170,166,236,234],"tags":[362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315"}],"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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}