{"id":4204,"date":"2023-08-14T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:47:50","slug":"how-to-goes-to-the-old-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4204","title":{"rendered":"How To goes to the old country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s episode of\u00a0<em>How To with John Wilson<\/em> gave some airtime to my hometown and alma mater, referred to often on this blog and its accompanying podcast as &#8220;the old country.&#8221; It&#8217;s the old country for Wilson as well, who graduated from Binghamton University in 2008. Scenes from Friday&#8217;s episode showed him back on campus, not fitting in at a frat party, not fitting in on State Street (Tom &amp; Marty&#8217;s!), and not fitting in at his old dorm.<\/p>\n<p>I know the feeling. I was too old for that place about 10 minutes after I graduated. For me it&#8217;s now been two decades, and, as I often find myself saying when thinking about Binghamton&#8230; ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s episode of\u00a0How To with John Wilson gave some airtime to my hometown and alma mater, referred to often on this blog and its accompanying podcast as &#8220;the old country.&#8221; It&#8217;s the old country for Wilson as well, who graduated &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4204\">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-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","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=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}