{"id":5412,"date":"2026-06-10T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:39:59","slug":"more-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5412","title":{"rendered":"More birthdays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early June is birthday season &#8217;round these parts.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it started last Friday, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/19264544\">5th anniversary episode<\/a> of\u00a0<em>Math and Musings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was my actual birthday (written comments <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5410\">here<\/a>, video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vaqRyGSIYjI&amp;t=126s\">here<\/a>) Monday was my good friend Doug Hill&#8217;s birthday, and yesterday Doug dropped an <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/season-5-episode-33-conversations-fourth-birthday-bonanza\/id1629549348?i=1000771806734\">anniversary episode<\/a> of\u00a0<em>his<\/em> podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/conversations-with-sports-fans\/id1629549348\"><em>Conversations with Sports Fans<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Doug&#8217;s show&#8230; and on this particular episode I happen to be one of the guests. There are six of us in total, conversing about, among other things, what it means to be a sports fan in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the trivia question of which one of those will you enjoy?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: all of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early June is birthday season &#8217;round these parts. I suppose it started last Friday, with the 5th anniversary episode of\u00a0Math and Musings. Sunday was my actual birthday (written comments here, video here) Monday was my good friend Doug Hill&#8217;s birthday, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5412\">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-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","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=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5413,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}