{"id":694848,"date":"2010-03-18T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003416"},"modified":"2010-03-17T23:58:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:58:38","slug":"ncaa-tournament-tips-off-today-everyone-stops-caring-about-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/694848","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament Tips Off Today, Everyone Stops Caring About Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/tourney-thumb-504x326-38304.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The photo here is an excerpt from the gambling site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodog.com\/publish\/etc\/medialib\/promotions\/2010-march-madness.Par.23401.Image.gif\">Bodog&#8217;s info graphic<\/a>, which puts things pretty bluntly. The first round of the tournament is in effect today and tomorrow, capping off a week of water cooler bracket chatter. <\/p>\n<p>Bosses nationwide can expect employees to call in sick from sudden illnesses today, which can only be cured by sitting at home and watching several consecutive hours of basketball.<\/p>\n<p>To what lengths do you go to keep up with the tournament while pretending to work?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodog.com\/publish\/etc\/medialib\/promotions\/2010-march-madness.Par.23401.Image.gif\">NCAA Basketball March Madness<\/a> [Bodog]<br \/>\n<i>(Thanks, Jeff!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo here is an excerpt from the gambling site Bodog&#8217;s info graphic, which puts things pretty bluntly. The first round of the tournament is in effect today and tomorrow, capping off a week of water cooler bracket chatter. Bosses nationwide can expect employees to call in sick from sudden illnesses today, which can only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ULe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}