{"id":4995,"date":"2025-07-04T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:07:16","slug":"my-favorite-daytime-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4995","title":{"rendered":"My favorite daytime holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/17412877\">Math and Musings<\/a> Franklin and I discuss our recent trip to Coney Island, among other things home of the famous Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Eating Contest&#8230; happening TODAY!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we weren&#8217;t\/aren&#8217;t there for the contest. Just doing some advance work I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in New York City today, head to Coney Island. But if\u00a0you&#8217;re in the D.C. area (and you&#8217;re reading this today before 10:30 a.m.), come on out to Claude Moore Park in Sterling, Virginia, to celebrate Fourth Fest! I&#8217;ll be reciting the text of the Declaration of Independence, a tradition of mine going back more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>I hear they&#8217;re also selling hot dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss our recent trip to Coney Island, among other things home of the famous Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Eating Contest&#8230; happening TODAY! Yeah, we weren&#8217;t\/aren&#8217;t there for the contest. Just doing some advance &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4995\">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-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}