{"id":361,"date":"2014-08-20T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-08-20T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:55:11","slug":"fame-and-notoriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Fame and notoriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have seen the major press coverage bestowed upon my old hometown, the one and only Binghamton, New York, who received a bit of ink in this month&#8217;s issue of\u00a0<em>Esquire<\/em>. In a lengthy piece on the American sandwich, the Triple Cities (of which Binghamton is one) in general and Sharkey&#8217;s (a Binghamton landmark) in particular are noted for the Binghamton area&#8217;s gift to the world: the spiedie.<\/p>\n<p>On the cover of the mag, of course, is Hollywood&#8217;s new idol, Chris Pratt. Formerly an overweight funnyman, now a hunky lead (so they tell me), this guy&#8217;s in every movie coming out this summer (recent credits: <em>Moneyball<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Zero Dark Thirty<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Her<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Lego Movie<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>), and a big one forthcoming:\u00a0<em>Jurassic World<\/em>, fourth installment in the Jurassic Park series. Married to Anna Faris and star of a hit TV series (<em>Parks and Recreation<\/em>), this guy is money, even when playing a buffoon (see\u00a0<em>Parks and Rec<\/em>). Not bad for a guy who a few years ago lived in a pit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, on TV that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have seen the major press coverage bestowed upon my old hometown, the one and only Binghamton, New York, who received a bit of ink in this month&#8217;s issue of\u00a0Esquire. In a lengthy piece on the American sandwich, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=361\">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-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}