{"id":5599,"date":"2026-11-06T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:06:30","slug":"we-basically-never-go-to-school-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5599","title":{"rendered":"We basically never go to school in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow begins yet another long weekend for Loudoun County Public Schools. Monday is Diwali, and Franklin and I are celebrating on today&#8217;s episode of <em>Math and Musings<\/em> with, among other things, some Diwali-themed trivia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Pause for effect.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, neither one of us has any idea what Diwali is or really anything about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow begins yet another long weekend for Loudoun County Public Schools. Monday is Diwali, and Franklin and I are celebrating on today&#8217;s episode of Math and Musings with, among other things, some Diwali-themed trivia. (Pause for effect.) By the way, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5599\">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-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}