{"id":4576,"date":"2024-07-05T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:27:27","slug":"todays-practically-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4576","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s practically a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My two favorite holidays are New Year\u2019s Eve and the Fourth of July. New Year\u2019s\u00a0<em>Day<\/em> I think is an underrated holiday, never getting its full due as most people waste half the day hungover.<br \/>\nWith the Fourth this year falling on a Thursday, many employers have granted their charges a second day off today, Fourth of July Reprise or whatever we&#8217;re calling this one, to set up a four-day weekend. Gotta love a double weekend, and if you&#8217;re fortunate enough to be in this camp I encourage you to take advantage.<\/p>\n<p>And I guess if you&#8217;re hungover through the first weekend you&#8217;ve always got a second chance at it.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for something to do? Check out today&#8217;s episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/15323625\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a>, where my son and I play representatives of the Binghamton, New York, Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My two favorite holidays are New Year\u2019s Eve and the Fourth of July. New Year\u2019s\u00a0Day I think is an underrated holiday, never getting its full due as most people waste half the day hungover. With the Fourth this year falling &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4576\">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-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","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=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}