{"id":807,"date":"2007-03-30T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T09:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts_on_the\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T09:56:45","slug":"thoughts_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts_on_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this not my bracket update for the NCAA Tournament.&nbsp; But I did pick Ohio State to be in the Final Four.&nbsp; Enough on that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s fascinating to me is that three teams, by Tuesday morning, will bitterly disappointed after coming so close only to lose.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t shed a tear for them!&nbsp; They are actually the luckiest of the group.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; They will have the opportunity to learn and find something few do&#8230;clarity.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to our culture winning is everything and losing is&#8230;well&#8230;for losers.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not advocating perpetual losing as a way of life.&nbsp; Losing, and not repeatedly, is a great teacher in savoring wins.&nbsp; Like it or not the losses will come in this life, and some of them will hurt deeply.&nbsp; So why not gain the wisdom found inside the disappointment?<\/p>\n<p>Check-out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachk.com\/\">Mike Krzyzewski&#8217;s<\/a> perspective on losing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7iaHU_Nuqbc\">NCAA Tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this not my bracket update for the NCAA Tournament.&nbsp; But I did pick Ohio State to be in the Final Four.&nbsp; Enough on that&#8230; What&#8217;s fascinating to me is that three teams, by Tuesday morning, will bitterly disappointed after coming so close only to lose.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t shed a tear for them!&nbsp; They are actually&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}