{"id":2476,"date":"2019-08-30T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:47:22","slug":"happy-friday-before-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday Before Labor Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Round these parts we have a silly, made-up holiday called &#8220;the Friday before Labor Day.&#8221; (I do realize that all holidays are\u00a0<em>made up<\/em>, but come on, this one was made up like a month ago!) Three-day weekend just isn&#8217;t enough for the tourism industry; they got us four.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this means we must go to school one day further into June. The last day of school where I live is now June 10, not June 9. Students will be sitting in class on June 10 thinking\u00a0<em>I could have started my summer vacation today<\/em>. And let&#8217;s face it, it won&#8217;t just be the students thinking that.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was my thought the last month after I heard about this new silly holiday. I&#8217;ll admit I thought it was a waste.<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of the day yesterday, were the students complaining that the next day was a day off? Heck, you could have talked them into going until about June 27 to get today off.<\/p>\n<p>I think the teachers were right there with &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday Before Labor Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Round these parts we have a silly, made-up holiday called &#8220;the Friday before Labor Day.&#8221; (I do realize that all holidays are\u00a0made up, but come on, this one was made up like a month ago!) Three-day weekend just isn&#8217;t enough &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2476\">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-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}