{"id":5248,"date":"2026-01-07T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:22:21","slug":"bills-are-the-all-the-rage-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"Bills are the all the rage… for many"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live in the United States, which means I meet a lot of people from Upstate New York.<\/p>\n

(That joke takes a minute to sink in, so I’ll pause here momentarily.)<\/p>\n

For a long time no one claimed to be from Upstate New York, but now in the Bills-are-actually-good era, folks are no longer embarrassed to admit it.<\/p>\n

Me? I’m from the Southern Tier, not Western New York, so I just can’t.<\/p>\n

I don’t like snow, I call it\u00a0soda<\/em>, not\u00a0pop<\/em>, and I still don’t like the Bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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