{"id":5104,"date":"2025-09-05T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:21:04","slug":"5104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"Back in the old country again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/17769501\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> Franklin and I discuss our recent excursion to the old country. Last weekend we visited both my hometown of Binghamton, New York, and a town I actually enjoy visiting&#8230; Watkins Glen, New York. No auto racing or music festivals this time (that&#8217;s what one does in W.G.), just hiking and sailing, specifically sailing aboard the schooner\u00a0<em>True Love<\/em>. Believe it or not there&#8217;s actually a connection there to Hollywood, European royalty, and three of the most popular singers of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ve got to tune in to find out what.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss our recent excursion to the old country. Last weekend we visited both my hometown of Binghamton, New York, and a town I actually enjoy visiting&#8230; Watkins Glen, New York. No auto racing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5104\">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-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","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=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}