{"id":5363,"date":"2026-04-24T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:28:53","slug":"it-was-20-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"It was 20 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/19039052\">Math and Musings<\/a> Franklin and I discuss the crowing achievement of my youth: catching a foul ball at a minor league baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years later I still go to a lot of minor league games and I&#8217;ve collected a few more balls&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>but you never forget your first.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss the crowing achievement of my youth: catching a foul ball at a minor league baseball game. Twenty years later I still go to a lot of minor league games and I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5363\">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-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","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=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}