{"id":4954,"date":"2025-06-09T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2025-06-09T06:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:26:28","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4954","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s that time of year again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do this much anymore (once a year, as a matter of fact), but I\u00a0<em>have<\/em> done it 325 times. And now Episode #326 of\u00a0<em>Politics After Dark<\/em> is live at a little corner of the Internet called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YouTube\">YouTube<\/a>, a website housing 30 or so of those 326. The first 318 aired on this thing called &#8220;TV,&#8221; and they were all half an hour each. (Tuesday nights from 8:30-9, as a matter of fact.) This one&#8217;s about eight minutes; well worth your eight minutes if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n<p>And I do.<\/p>\n<p>And for other old O&#8217;Connell bits, check out the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tyBKslks7Os\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do this much anymore (once a year, as a matter of fact), but I\u00a0have done it 325 times. And now Episode #326 of\u00a0Politics After Dark is live at a little corner of the Internet called YouTube, a website &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4954\">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-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","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=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}