{"id":4405,"date":"2024-02-05T09:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2024-02-05T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T03:59:48","slug":"curb-still-bringing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4405","title":{"rendered":"Curb still bringing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been looking forward to Season 12 of\u00a0<em>Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> since the moment Season 11 ended fourteen months ago.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it&#8217;d be good, and it was.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example, from last night&#8217;s premiere, of why\u00a0<em>Curb<\/em> is both topical and timeless: in the same episode I can get a modern-day crack about &#8220;DTM&#8221; (doing too much), then minutes later get a centuries-old Yiddish insult, &#8220;farbissiner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My goal today is to squeeze both of those into conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been looking forward to Season 12 of\u00a0Curb Your Enthusiasm since the moment Season 11 ended fourteen months ago. I knew it&#8217;d be good, and it was. Here&#8217;s an example, from last night&#8217;s premiere, of why\u00a0Curb is both topical and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4405\">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-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}