{"id":4849,"date":"2025-03-10T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:51:15","slug":"sometimes-the-hilarious-satire-just-presents-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4849","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the hilarious satire just presents itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closest Long John Silver&#8217;s restaurant to me is more than an hour away, but given its status as the industry standard in quick service seafood, I do stay apprised of its doings. And as I will on occasion partake of their wares, I remain an active member in its Seacret Society rewards program.\u00a0<em>Seacret<\/em>&#8230; hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>I received an e-mail Saturday from LJS touting its newest promotion: the Lent Challenge. Levels of mastery include deckhand, boson (I had to Google that one), first mate, and captain.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things one can get a buttery piece of fried fish and some delicious waffle fries for $2.99.<\/p>\n<p>Any day except Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lenten challenge not valid on Fridays. That&#8217;s just hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>I hear they&#8217;re lowering the price to 49 cents on April 31, then they&#8217;ve got a collab with Chick-fil-A that&#8217;s valid only on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>I swear sometimes you just can&#8217;t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closest Long John Silver&#8217;s restaurant to me is more than an hour away, but given its status as the industry standard in quick service seafood, I do stay apprised of its doings. And as I will on occasion partake &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4849\">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-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","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=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}