{"id":25809,"date":"2022-08-25T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=25809"},"modified":"2022-08-25T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:58:38","slug":"staying-home-to-watch-for-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=25809","title":{"rendered":"Staying home to watch for rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I sit here waiting for the rain to come, the lyrics to &#8220;Time&#8221; by Pink Floyd come to mind&#8230;&#8221;tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch for rain&#8221;&#8230;yeah, I&#8217;m a little weird like that&#8230;can you tell I&#8217;m already bored and it&#8217;s only 8:47? While we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s look at another line from the same song that just about sums up how I feel about getting old&#8230;&#8221;the sun is the same in a relative way but you&#8217;re older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death..&#8221; and now the depression starts&#8230;.I know I&#8217;ve talked about getting old before but as the days go on, it&#8217;s keeps getting more and more real&#8230;and I look in the mirror and wonder what happened to that guy&#8230;the one with brown hair and no wrinkles&#8230;and with the possibilities that have come and gone, leaving this husk of a person who has no purpose other than the rote repetition of tasks that make up my days&#8230;.and that is pretty frickin depressing, too&#8230;.I wonder if I can still change that? Do I want to?\u00a0 Who knows? If it&#8217;s not raining by 9, I&#8217;m going out&#8230;4 minutes to go&#8230;.more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I sit here waiting for the rain to come, the lyrics to &#8220;Time&#8221; by Pink Floyd come to mind&#8230;&#8221;tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch for rain&#8221;&#8230;yeah, I&#8217;m a little weird like that&#8230;can you tell I&#8217;m already bored and it&#8217;s only 8:47? While we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s look at another line &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=25809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staying home to watch for rain&#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-25809","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\/25809","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=25809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25810,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions\/25810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}