{"id":5377,"date":"2026-05-08T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:30:26","slug":"and-speaking-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5377","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of New York…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say “New York” to someone and of course they think the city.<\/p>\n

But there’s more to the Empire State than just the eight million or so folks who live those five boroughs.<\/p>\n

There’s this whole other section, including my hometown.<\/p>\n

Everyone has a hometown. Binghamton’s mine.<\/p>\n

(So said Rod Serling.)<\/p>\n

Last weekend Franklin and I visited the old country, spending some time in Binghamton and also the Gorge-ous city of Ithaca, home of the famous Buttermilk Falls and the Moosewood Restaurant. (Rod Serling’s got a connection there too.)<\/p>\n

Hear about them both on today’s episode of\u00a0Math and Musings<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Say “New York” to someone and of course they think the city. But there’s more to the Empire State than just the eight million or so folks who live those five boroughs. There’s this whole other section, including my hometown. … 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-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","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=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}