{"id":4832,"date":"2025-02-21T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:41:45","slug":"theres-got-to-be-a-podcast-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4832","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s got to be a podcast after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/16478694\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> Franklin and I discuss Presidents&#8217; Day and try to impress each other with some trivia about our first president. It was recorded long ago when the world, for me at least, was a lot different.<\/p>\n<p>Most of this week I was in Binghamton, New York, saying goodbye to a friend. Actually, a lot of people were saying goodbye to this friend. Friends, family, fellow firefighters from hundreds of miles away who didn&#8217;t even\u00a0<em>know<\/em> JR Gaudet, came to honor his ultimate sacrifice, one week after the fire that claimed his life.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this week, the most recent funeral I&#8217;d been to was at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>This one was ten times as powerful.<\/p>\n<p>It was very fitting.<\/p>\n<p>JR wouldn&#8217;t have wanted the fuss, but the pageantry was incredible. Congressmen, senators, maybe even presidents (see how I came full circle on this?)&#8230; they don&#8217;t get this kind of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>(Pause.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss Presidents&#8217; Day and try to impress each other with some trivia about our first president. It was recorded long ago when the world, for me at least, was a lot different. Most &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4832\">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-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","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=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}