{"id":24120,"date":"2022-01-30T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:44:05","slug":"a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24120","title":{"rendered":"A good idea&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I have been abusing my hands for the past few weeks as I work on my kitchen and they are covered with cuts and bruises along with the damage to my right thumb that hurts constantly now&#8230;but, I took the day off working on the house yesterday and purposely tried to do the littlest amount I could do with my hands&#8230;and, other than my guilt from not working, it appears that it was a good idea&#8230;the nasty cut on my right index finger that has felt like a supercharged paper cut is starting to heal and it doesn&#8217;t hurt much to do this when it was so damn painful Friday that I almost stopped doing these&#8230;and the overall stiffness has improved, too, and I can move them much easier today and I hope taking today off will continue to help them improve&#8230;.I have to remember that I&#8217;m not young anymore and I can&#8217;t just keep abusing my body like I could when I was younger&#8230;and I really don&#8217;t have a schedule like I had when I was younger, either&#8230;back then I had to juggle work, school, and home maintenance but now I just have this place to work on and I can look forward to taking a couple of weeks off after I finish the kitchen in a few weeks&#8230;.that doesn&#8217;t help with the guilt of taking time off but I&#8217;m working on that&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I have been abusing my hands for the past few weeks as I work on my kitchen and they are covered with cuts and bruises along with the damage to my right thumb that hurts constantly now&#8230;but, I took the day off working on the house yesterday and purposely tried to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A good idea&#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":[1292,41],"class_list":["post-24120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-house","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120","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=24120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24121,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions\/24121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}