{"id":3994,"date":"2023-03-03T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:09:19","slug":"sadness-gladness-and-a-little-reminiscing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"Sadness, gladness, and a little reminiscing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandwiched between the worst day I ever experienced (<a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3557\">March 2<\/a>, 2006) and the finest moment I ever experienced (<a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=165\">March 5<\/a> a few years later) there is this date: March 3. Three-three, if you will. This time of year is always worthy of a little reminiscing.<\/p>\n<p>Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/12331152\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> you&#8217;ll hear the tale of my first ever college basketball game, February 17, 1990, a simpler time no doubt, but filled\u00a0with drama on the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandwiched between the worst day I ever experienced (March 2, 2006) and the finest moment I ever experienced (March 5 a few years later) there is this date: March 3. Three-three, if you will. This time of year is always &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3994\">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-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","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=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}