{"id":33928,"date":"2026-04-06T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33928"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:35:35","slug":"saving-the-political-stuff-for-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33928","title":{"rendered":"Saving the political stuff for later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;Sitting here finishing up the coffee as I wait to head out for the dentist appointment at 9:15&#8230;feel pretty good this morning so I think I&#8217;m going to make this no cocktail thing last for at least a week just to see how much damage I&#8217;ve been doing to my body&#8230;already have a lot more energy and the indoor bike ride was an easy one&#8230;I&#8217;m hoping that cutting out the cocktails will let my sense of taste come back a little&#8230;I know my vision is better after only one night so that is enough incentive to keep it up for a while&#8230;and I&#8217;ll be losing weight without the extra calories so I can buy new clothes for the Italy trip&#8230;and I can spend the money I&#8217;m not spending on booze to update my wardrobe&#8230;okay, need to get ready for the dentist by doing a good job cleaning my teeth&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;Sitting here finishing up the coffee as I wait to head out for the dentist appointment at 9:15&#8230;feel pretty good this morning so I think I&#8217;m going to make this no cocktail thing last for at least a week just to see how much damage I&#8217;ve been doing to my body&#8230;already have a lot more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving the political stuff for later&#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-33928","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\/33928","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=33928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33929,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions\/33929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}