{"id":1369,"date":"2016-11-28T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2016-11-28T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T05:11:36","slug":"and-then-there-were-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"And then there were three&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt you remember this year\u2019s great trivia question (see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1107\" target=\"_blank\">Royal birthday<\/a>,\u201d April 20, 2016):<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Name four celebrities, all born in 1926 and all still going strong, that have been at their current jobs (more or less) waaaay longer than anyone ever thought they would ever be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, now it\u2019s three.<\/p>\n<p>Few deaths are cause for celebration, but some such celebrations are less obtuse than others. See Castro, Fidel\u2026 a man despised by so many yet somehow still an idol to a bizarre minority that includes much of our American media.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos, though, to our local paper. (That would be <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.) Yes, its front-page articles on Mr. Castro at times sing his praises like tweets from second-rate pop stars, but its lead editorial weaves a vitriol usually reserved for our President-elect. (That would be a certain Mr. Trump.)<\/p>\n<p>Credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt you remember this year\u2019s great trivia question (see \u201cRoyal birthday,\u201d April 20, 2016): \u00a0Name four celebrities, all born in 1926 and all still going strong, that have been at their current jobs (more or less) waaaay longer than &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}