{"id":5181,"date":"2025-11-07T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:37:57","slug":"twenty-years-later-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5181","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most talked about episode of\u00a0Politics After Dark<\/em> aired on November 8, 2005. My guest that night was one Joseph P. Sullivan, City Council candidate in Binghamton’s Fourth Ward.<\/p>\n

We didn’t talk about politics.<\/p>\n

I asked Joe a series of relatively inane questions, but the rapport we’d developed over nearly 20 years of friendship really came through, if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n

And I do.<\/p>\n

It was one of the most fun 30-minute periods I’d ever had.<\/p>\n

Less than four months later Joe was dead. No more TV appearances, no more conversations.<\/p>\n

But I kept the list of questions, and on today’s episode of Math and Musings<\/a> I ask them of the only person I trust to carry on Joe’s legacy.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most talked about episode of\u00a0Politics After Dark aired on November 8, 2005. My guest that night was one Joseph P. Sullivan, City Council candidate in Binghamton’s Fourth Ward. We didn’t talk about politics. I asked Joe a series of … Continue reading →<\/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-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","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=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}