{"id":5475,"date":"2026-08-07T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:17:28","slug":"from-the-road-old-forge-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5475","title":{"rendered":"From the road: Old Forge, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/19566043\">Math and Musings<\/a><\/em> Franklin and I are in upstate New York <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5466\">again<\/a> (separate trip if you can believe it), taking in the old sights in Old Forge. I say <em>old<\/em> because every point of reference I have in those parts goes back at least two decades or so. Luckily not one thing has changed since my many visits as a kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlight of the trip of course was the famed Enchanted Forest Water Safari, featured today on the pod. If you&#8217;re from upstate New York I don&#8217;t have to tell you that not one thing has changed there because you already know&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Enchanted Forest&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the fun never stops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I are in upstate New York again (separate trip if you can believe it), taking in the old sights in Old Forge. I say old because every point of reference I have in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5475\">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-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}