{"id":5241,"date":"2025-12-31T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:41:42","slug":"this-is-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"THIS is the most wonderful time of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone asks me my favorite holiday I never hesitate in my response.<br \/>\n<em>New Year\u2019s Eve.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nSome people start celebrating at 11:59 p.m., some people start at 11:00, some people start at noon.<br \/>\nMe?<\/p>\n<p>I already started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone asks me my favorite holiday I never hesitate in my response. New Year\u2019s Eve.\u00a0 Some people start celebrating at 11:59 p.m., some people start at 11:00, some people start at noon. Me? I already started. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5241\">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-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","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=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}