{"id":1804,"date":"2017-12-18T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2017-12-18T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T11:59:31","slug":"something-to-live-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Something to live for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A daily habit of mine is reading the obituaries from my old hometown paper, the\u00a0<em>Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin\u00a0<\/em>of Binghamton, New York. It\u2019s the only piece I read from said paper, and the only real news I ever get from home.<\/p>\n<p>The list is usually about 20-25 names long. I\u2019m always pleased to see that just before Christmas the list shrinks by some mystical force that keeps people alive during this most wonderful time of the year. Today\u2019s list? Eight!<\/p>\n<p>With apologies to those who\u2019ve known this not to be 100% accurate, Christmas is just something worth living for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A daily habit of mine is reading the obituaries from my old hometown paper, the\u00a0Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin\u00a0of Binghamton, New York. It\u2019s the only piece I read from said paper, and the only real news I ever get from home. The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1804\">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-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}