{"id":5000,"date":"2025-07-09T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:28:41","slug":"it-wasnt-the-final-post-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t the final post ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking Monday with my <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4997\">post about Japan<\/a>, that somehow I wouldn&#8217;t be able to update the site so many miles from home.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is like, land of Internet and Wi-fi and all things electronic&#8230; of <em>course<\/em> I&#8217;d be able to blog. For what it&#8217;s worth I can also e-mail and text and call my neighbors like I never left home. (Can&#8217;t feed the cats though&#8211;had to have someone else handle that one for us.)<\/p>\n<p>Saying we&#8217;re having a good time in Japan is like saying Babe Ruth was a pretty good baseball player. Full updates will follow, naturally, but for now know that, yeah, we made it, and, if you have the opportunity some day&#8211;it took me 43 years&#8211;see this place in person.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to use your phone, don&#8217;t worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking Monday with my post about Japan, that somehow I wouldn&#8217;t be able to update the site so many miles from home. Japan is like, land of Internet and Wi-fi and all things electronic&#8230; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5000\">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-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","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=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5001,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}