{"id":3234,"date":"2021-06-11T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2021-06-11T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:38:16","slug":"still-a-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3234","title":{"rendered":"Still a tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid there was always one given on the last day of school. Your math teacher would let you watch the classic Disney production, <em>Donald in Mathmagic Land<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it? This was no small thing. Step one: procure VHS tape of said film. Step two: wheel television down from the \u201cAV room\u201d on its cart. Gotta be one with a VCR too. Step three: hope to God the VCR works and doesn\u2019t just flash \u201c12:00\u201d at you and laugh. Step four: watch said tape. And remember to rewind.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays it\u2019s much easier. Search the thing up on youtube and you\u2019re watching it on any screen you like, basically for free. But you\u2019ve still got to have a math teacher who\u2019s willing to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Guess who the math <em>teacher<\/em> is now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid there was always one given on the last day of school. Your math teacher would let you watch the classic Disney production, Donald in Mathmagic Land. Watch it? This was no small thing. Step one: &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3234\">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-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}