{"id":5089,"date":"2025-08-25T09:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:51:37","slug":"sometimes-even-meh-can-be-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5089","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes even meh can be pretty good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two items knocked off the O&#8217;Connell schedule this weekend I&#8217;d wanted to accomplish for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Number one, I finally made it to that Yala Greek Ice Cream in Georgetown. It&#8217;s been the talk of Instagram, etc. since it opened about six weeks ago and like every new thing that comes down the pike, I just had to try it. Apparently it&#8217;s the only official Greek ice cream shop in America, whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a joke in here about official ice cream classifications being Greek to me.)<\/p>\n<p>Greek ice cream?<\/p>\n<p>Eh, it&#8217;s pretty good. It&#8217;s about as good as any other ice cream you&#8217;ve ever had, just more expensive and farther away.<\/p>\n<p>Second goal?<\/p>\n<p>Read Mark Levin&#8217;s new book,\u00a0<em>On Power<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Eh.<\/p>\n<p>The best parts are Levin&#8217;s quoting others or himself in his previous books. He&#8217;s been resting on his laurels for some time now, though I guess he&#8217;s earned it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like Greek ice cream in a way: you figure it&#8217;s going to be at least pretty good, and yeah, that&#8217;s about where it is.<\/p>\n<p>I aspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two items knocked off the O&#8217;Connell schedule this weekend I&#8217;d wanted to accomplish for some time. Number one, I finally made it to that Yala Greek Ice Cream in Georgetown. It&#8217;s been the talk of Instagram, etc. since it opened &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5089\">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-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","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=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}