{"id":31082,"date":"2024-11-28T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31082"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:54:18","slug":"its-a-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31082","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a cliche&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;not sure if I&#8217;ve ever done one of these before, but there are a few things I&#8217;m thankful for and thought I&#8217;d talk a bit about them&#8230;first of all is the 17 months of being cancer free since my surgery in July of 2023&#8230;and I still marvel at all of the things that had to fall into place to have that happen&#8230;and to have the outcome I&#8217;ve had, being back to almost normal so fast that today I really don&#8217;t think about it much&#8230;and to have my own home that had the same kind of things fall into place there, too, for me to have it&#8230;and to be making money on the place every day and I may have enough equity and cash to give each one of my kids 50K when I go&#8230;and to have enough money in the bank to not worry for the first time in my life&#8230;but I still can&#8217;t bring myself to buy a new stove and spend the 700 bucks it will take&#8230;maybe later&#8230;and a big one&#8230;to have the good health I have to be able to have only 370 miles to go to get to 10K for the year&#8230;and that&#8217;s not bad for an old guy&#8230;so yeah&#8230;I&#8217;ve been pretty lucky over the past 4 years&#8230;and let&#8217;s hope for another 4 at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;not sure if I&#8217;ve ever done one of these before, but there are a few things I&#8217;m thankful for and thought I&#8217;d talk a bit about them&#8230;first of all is the 17 months of being cancer free since my surgery in July of 2023&#8230;and I still marvel at all of the things that had to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s a cliche&#8217;&#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-31082","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\/31082","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=31082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31084,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions\/31084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}