{"id":15847,"date":"2018-03-04T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15847"},"modified":"2018-03-04T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T19:20:13","slug":"brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15847","title":{"rendered":"Brutal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you can see, I&#8217;m taking the weekend off from political stuff to just let my brain rest a little&#8230;but, that doesn&#8217;t mean I can skip these and not feel guilty&#8230;so, how about a bike update? The ride today was just brutal, the wind was blowing out of the East at about 20 and that made the first 3 mile leg out just frickin brutal&#8230;and the last hill is into the wind, too, so I was just drained when I got back here&#8230;.I think I have the bike zeroed in after 3 rides&#8230;got the seat set at the right height today and got the fine tuning for the shifters set so I can get the gear I want when I want it, and along with adjusting the brakes to the feel I want, I think it&#8217;s ready to just ride some&#8230;I really do like the new bike a lot and I feel good that I picked another good one&#8230;.the ride is just so smooth and I can bomb around without flinching when I hit bumps like I did on the Schwinn&#8230;even started a little of that today but with the wind so strong, it&#8217;s hard to get into any kind of a rhythm, especially when it gusts to over 30&#8230;but one good thing is that I can eat again with being on the bike every day&#8230;going to even have an olive burger for dinner today&#8230;.and maybe even a snack later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you can see, I&#8217;m taking the weekend off from political stuff to just let my brain rest a little&#8230;but, that doesn&#8217;t mean I can skip these and not feel guilty&#8230;so, how about a bike update? The ride today was just brutal, the wind was blowing out of the East at about 20 and that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brutal&#8230;<\/span> <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":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15848,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions\/15848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}