{"id":3749,"date":"2022-08-17T06:57:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2022-08-17T06:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T02:57:19","slug":"thoughts-from-an-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from an old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0<em>when I was a kid<\/em>\u00a0series&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>School never started until after Labor Day. Teachers returned the day after Labor Day (Tuesday), then students arrived Wednesday. Somehow without the Internet or e-mail or social media or anything like that they got it done.<\/p>\n<p>Today starts a marathon of preparation for students who will arrive eight days from now, 20 days before teachers of my parents&#8217; era would walk through the schoolhouse doors after two and a half months of being totally disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0when I was a kid\u00a0series&#8230; School never started until after Labor Day. Teachers returned the day after Labor Day (Tuesday), then students arrived Wednesday. Somehow without the Internet or e-mail or social media or anything like that they got &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3749\">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-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}