{"id":3118,"date":"2021-03-12T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T03:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2021-03-12T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T03:07:52","slug":"one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"One year"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no official date that the COVID-19 Era began, but there is for me in a way. It was March 12, 2020, that I received a 5 a.m. phone call from our school district’s superintendent saying that schools would be closed that day, the next day and–get this–the whole following week!<\/em><\/p>\n

Ha! A whole week! How ridiculous!<\/p>\n

I was ecstatic for about 10 minutes as I contemplated what was basically an extra Spring Break. Yeah, it started to sink in a short while later what this all really meant, but those 10 minutes were glorious.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, everything in my life before then was pretty damn good too. I just took it all for granted.<\/p>\n

Won’t make that mistake again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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