{"id":5410,"date":"2026-06-08T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:30:04","slug":"birthdays-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I turned 44 years old.<\/p>\n<p>As is now my yearly habit, I dropped a new episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vaqRyGSIYjI&amp;t=126s\"><em>Politics After Dark<\/em><\/a> on YouTube, episode #327 if you&#8217;re counting. (I&#8217;m always counting.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only seven minutes long, but pretty much summarizes the year. Some ups, some downs, some smiles, some frowns.<\/p>\n<p>This week? Last week of the school year and a possible Knicks championship?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a big smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I turned 44 years old. As is now my yearly habit, I dropped a new episode of\u00a0Politics After Dark on YouTube, episode #327 if you&#8217;re counting. (I&#8217;m always counting.) It&#8217;s only seven minutes long, but pretty much summarizes the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5410\">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-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}