{"id":150,"date":"2008-03-21T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-03-21T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T20:06:21","slug":"march-madness-is-for-everyone-rockers-obama-nerds-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2008\/03\/21\/march-madness-is-for-everyone-rockers-obama-nerds-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness is for Everyone: Rockers, Obama, Nerds, and You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that March Madness is upon us, let’s all join in on the chaos, shall we? Hey, even Obama<\/a> is doing it. But what if you like the excitement but aren’t particularly enthused about basketball? There are bound to be some alternatives out there…<\/p>\n

For example, Philly’s Rock Station, 94WYSP<\/a>, is hosting “Rock Madness”<\/a>. There are 64 bands. You fill out your own bracket and should you pick correctly, you win a 42″ HDTV. Of course, the catch is you have to live in the greater Philadelphia area, as per the official rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or, let’s adress another demographic: the nerds. Though not typically huge sports fans, why not let the geeky types join in…but with their own unique approach. A somewhat more mathematical one, let’s say? Check out Owen’s Photolog<\/a>, in which he predicts – by way of a “bracket-generating algorithm that uses the seeds to generate weights for a random function” – that Kansas will win.<\/p>\n

Finally, for the theater-lovers out there, March also means the beginning of Broadway season<\/a>. Anybody else surprised to see Terrence Howard<\/a> starring on Broadway? Makes sense though, I guess. The guy blew me away with his acting and singing in Hustle and Flow. I’m sure he’ll kill it.<\/p>\n

So whatever your passion this month – be it basketball, music, or otherwise – join the madness. In whichever way you see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that March Madness is upon us, let’s all join in on the chaos, shall we? Hey, even Obama is doing it. But what if you like the excitement but aren’t particularly enthused about basketball? There are bound to be some alternatives out there… For example, Philly’s Rock Station, 94WYSP, is hosting “Rock Madness”. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[17,25,30],"tags":[63,284,298,845,974,1120,2680,1298,1330,1399,1548,1805],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}