{"id":3709,"date":"2022-07-13T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:40:25","slug":"not-to-be-outdone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"Not to be outdone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the discussion in yesterday&#8217;s math class centered around &#8220;7-Eleven Day,&#8221; one of the great national holidays in which one can get a free small Slurpee at 7-Eleven on 7\/11. That would be July 11. (Suckers in other countries who put the date first followed by the month lose out apparently.)<\/p>\n<p><em>How many free Slurpees did you get?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How many bizarre flavor combinations did you concoct?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never mind the things are only a dollar anyway; it&#8217;s the principle.<\/p>\n<p>And the rest of the week? Not to be outdone? Wawa offering free\u00a0<em>Icees<\/em> through July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping up with the Joneses, frozen beverage-style.<\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the discussion in yesterday&#8217;s math class centered around &#8220;7-Eleven Day,&#8221; one of the great national holidays in which one can get a free small Slurpee at 7-Eleven on 7\/11. That would be July 11. (Suckers in other countries &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3709\">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-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}