{"id":2001,"date":"2018-06-11T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2018-06-11T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T03:54:53","slug":"seven-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2001","title":{"rendered":"Seven years in the making&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still riding high off the Capitals&#8217; Stanley Cup-winning victory last Thursday I give, as a gift to anyone who cares, the 319th episode of\u00a0<em>Politics After Dark<\/em>. Why do I announce this one? It&#8217;s the first in nearly seven years.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who perhaps do not know the backstory, I hosted a weekly program on public access television in Binghamton, New York, from 2004-2011. The name of the show was\u00a0<i>Politics After Dark<\/i>, and there were actually two separate stints, Version 1.0 and Version 2.0. In all I aired 318 episodes during those years, and in December 2011 vowed never to do another.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not on public access but available to all via the magic of YouTube (I was doing YouTube before there\u00a0<em>was<\/em> a YouTube), I give you\u00a0<em>Politics After Dark<\/em> Version 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>This is Episode #319:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oFCgdC0wCYE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oFCgdC0wCYE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still riding high off the Capitals&#8217; Stanley Cup-winning victory last Thursday I give, as a gift to anyone who cares, the 319th episode of\u00a0Politics After Dark. Why do I announce this one? It&#8217;s the first in nearly seven years. For &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2001\">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-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","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=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}