{"id":5311,"date":"2026-03-06T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:35:10","slug":"the-end-of-a-tough-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5311","title":{"rendered":"The end of a tough week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/18731362\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> Franklin and I talk about his namesake and my best friend for all eternity, Joe Sullivan. Franklin and Joe never got to meet, but as with many people I&#8217;ve met in the past 20 years, Franklin has heard so many stories about Joe it&#8217;s as though they went to TJ, St. Thomas&#8217;, and Skate Estate together through all those years that started with 19.<\/p>\n<p>If any of those references make sense to you, this episode is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0Math and Musings Franklin and I talk about his namesake and my best friend for all eternity, Joe Sullivan. Franklin and Joe never got to meet, but as with many people I&#8217;ve met in the past 20 years, Franklin &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5311\">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-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","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=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}