{"id":95765,"date":"2017-03-17T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=95765"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:08:10","slug":"20170317-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170317-01\/?p=95765","title":{"rendered":"Not interested in college basketball? No problem. Follow the Name of the Year 2017 bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/\">Name of the Year<\/a> celebrates people with great names. In the 2016 final, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/2016\/05\/pope-mccorkle-iii-is-your-2016-name-of.html\">Pope McCorkle III<\/a>, defeated <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/2016\/05\/2016-name-of-year-final-pope-mccorkle.html\">Sweet Orefice<\/a> with a 5% margin of victory. The year before that: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/2015\/05\/amanda-miranda-panda-is-2015-name-of.html\">Amanda Miranda Panda<\/a> defeated <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/2015\/05\/2015-name-of-year-final-lancelot.html\">Lancelot Supersad, Jr<\/a> by a commanding 15%. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/2017\/03\/here-are-your-2017-noty-no-1-seeds.html\">top four seeds<\/a>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kobe Buffalomeat<\/li>\n<li>Marmaduke Trebilcock<\/li>\n<li>Chardonnay Pantastico<\/li>\n<li>Quindarious Monday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow the competition <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nameoftheyear.com\/\">on the blog<\/a> or <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOTYtourney\">on Twitter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Cast your vote. Democracy depends on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest names of real people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-95765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The greatest names of real people.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}