{"id":20892,"date":"2020-09-05T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20892"},"modified":"2020-09-05T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:06:57","slug":"need-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20892","title":{"rendered":"Need a break&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with everything that has been going on in politics and with all of the riding I&#8217;ve been doing, I am worn out both mentally and physically and need a break&#8230;.so, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to do a political one today&#8230;just too much to think about and I need to let my brain rest for a while&#8230;maybe later? Who knows? My body is also throwing out the warning signs that it needs a rest, too&#8230;It&#8217;s been almost a month since I took a day off and all of the studies I&#8217;ve been reading say you should take a rest day at least once a week&#8230;that&#8217;s never going to happen but it&#8217;s supposed to rain tomorrow for part of the day so I think it&#8217;s time to give myself a rest&#8230;I did do two rides today after thinking I would only do one but I could feel my legs\u00a0 starting to feel the fatigue that usually says stop&#8230;and I have pain under both kneecaps and in my achilles which should never happen so I think I&#8217;ll listen to my body this time and give it a chance to repair tomorrow&#8230;.it will be pretty strange to not have to rush out of here in the morning and get a ride in before the F1 race&#8230;.I did try a new recipe for pickles today&#8230;made some dill pickles but put a jalpeno in it to make spicy dill pickles&#8230;and I can&#8217;t wait to taste them tomorrow&#8230;have to let them set to get the flavor to mesh with the peppercorns and garlic that I put in too&#8230;so, it looks like I&#8217;m taking the rest of the day off&#8230;pretty damn tired and just can&#8217;t get motivated to do anything&#8230;.that can wait til tomorrow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with everything that has been going on in politics and with all of the riding I&#8217;ve been doing, I am worn out both mentally and physically and need a break&#8230;.so, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to do a political one today&#8230;just too much to think about and I need to let my brain rest for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need a break&#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-20892","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\/20892","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=20892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20893,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20892\/revisions\/20893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}