{"id":4946,"date":"2025-06-02T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:17:30","slug":"this-week-has-sort-of-evolved-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4946","title":{"rendered":"This week has sort of evolved over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier incarnation of myself used to refer to weeks like this as &#8220;birthday weeks.&#8221; Yeah, it took a whole week to squeeze in birthday activities back then, back when we had to\u00a0<em>go<\/em> places and do things in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Now I could have a virtual birthday in pretty much any way I wanted and celebrate with people all over the world, and I&#8217;m a few quick photoshops away from making it look like I\u00a0<em>went<\/em> everywhere for my birthday too.<\/p>\n<p>But my real challenge these days is making sure no one finds out it&#8217;s my birthday or knows how old I&#8217;m turning.<\/p>\n<p>That one actually gets easier every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier incarnation of myself used to refer to weeks like this as &#8220;birthday weeks.&#8221; Yeah, it took a whole week to squeeze in birthday activities back then, back when we had to\u00a0go places and do things in real life. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4946\">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-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","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=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}