{"id":573890704,"date":"2018-03-30T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T03:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890704"},"modified":"2018-05-04T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:36:53","slug":"i-actually-talked-about-basketball-for-a-moment-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/i-actually-talked-about-basketball-for-a-moment-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I actually talked about basketball for a moment here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a basketball tournament and Indiana is in the finals. We have friends from Virginia Tech, the team who will tomorrow being playing the role of the villains. Which, of course, they are not. In point of fact, the Hokies are kind of the underdog here. Both teams started the year slow, and both teams figured it all out at the right time during the season. But, because of seeding, the final WNIT game will be played at Indiana. And Assembly Hall has been getting bigger and bigger crowds as they work their way through this tournament. It&#8217;s possible that none of the women for either team have every played in front of a crowd the size they&#8217;ll see tomorrow. And they&#8217;re all going to be wearing crimson and cream. <\/p>\n<p>So Virginia Tech, really, they&#8217;re not the favorite in this game. We have friends from there, so &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Talking smack to Hokies. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iuwbb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iuwbb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mb6APhMpju\">pic.twitter.com\/mb6APhMpju<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/979783976587087877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also, Justin and I did a fun show for today. It&#8217;s about that guy that is trying to launch himself into space with a homemade rocket. Or, at least he wants you to think that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing. Who can really say?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gpkvk-8e4b7d?from=site&#038;vjs=1&#038;skin=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From The Media Is Changing Department<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Younger viewers now watch Netflix more than the BBC, says BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/29kXlSVXr7\">https:\/\/t.co\/29kXlSVXr7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; themediaisdying (@themediaisdying) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themediaisdying\/status\/979698907356725248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Digital native news outlets offer several ways to get their news:<br \/>Newsletters: 97%<br \/>Apple News: 92%<br \/>Podcasts: 75%<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N5MZ0Ne6Vb\">https:\/\/t.co\/N5MZ0Ne6Vb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDRlqSBKj5\">pic.twitter.com\/BDRlqSBKj5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pewjournalism\/status\/979830884533760000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That department is going to be renamed, something that crystalizes its focus, and the nature of things. What about &#8230; The Office Of By Now Thoroughly Unnecessary Updates That Media Is Obviously Changing &#8230; The acronym is dreadful, but the name has a certain ring to it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a basketball tournament and Indiana is in the finals. We have friends from Virginia Tech, the team who will tomorrow being playing the role of the villains. Which, of course, they are not. In point of fact, the Hokies are kind of the underdog here. Both teams started the year slow, and both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,70,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-podcast","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890707,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890704\/revisions\/573890707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}