{"id":22935,"date":"2021-08-06T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22935"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:36:04","slug":"got-to-play-in-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22935","title":{"rendered":"Got to play in the waves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;didn&#8217;t get on the bike until around one today as I waited for the rain to stop&#8230;not that I wanted it to stop, it is so dry out here that we need all the rain we can get&#8230;but, on the ride, I saw that there were some pretty big waves on the lake that I wanted to play in&#8230;so I skipped the second ride, jumped in the car, and went out to have a little fun&#8230;and I did&#8230;.stayed out there for over an hour until I ran out of steam and I know I&#8217;m going to hurt tomorrow since everything already hurts but damn, it was worth it&#8230;.the waves were almost 5 footers and I got a few body surfing rides of almost a hundred feet in and that was just a hoot&#8230;and I finally figured out the swirling rip currents but it was still hard to get out of the water when I got tired&#8230;oh, and a coast guard helicopter came over and hovered for a few seconds for some reason&#8230;.maybe it was the red flag that was out to keep people out of the water&#8230;but, I&#8217;ve been doing this for over 60 years so I think I can handle it&#8230;.and now I know I can get out there any day there are waves to play in and that makes me smile&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;didn&#8217;t get on the bike until around one today as I waited for the rain to stop&#8230;not that I wanted it to stop, it is so dry out here that we need all the rain we can get&#8230;but, on the ride, I saw that there were some pretty big waves on the lake that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Got to play in the waves&#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-22935","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\/22935","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=22935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22936,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22935\/revisions\/22936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}