{"id":34011,"date":"2026-04-17T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34011"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:29:44","slug":"had-to-buy-a-new-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34011","title":{"rendered":"Had to buy a new mower&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;after I tried to repair my 25 year old Toro mower, I came to to the realization that it was beyond repair this time so I went out and bought a new mower today&#8230; a DeWalt with rear wheel drive, aluminum deck 21 inches, and a Briggs and Stratton engine&#8230;and it only cost me 388 bucks which I think is a deal&#8230;I was going to buy an electric one but none of them had enough run time to do the entire yard and everyone bitched about going through long grass&#8230;so, they are supposed to deliver it today since the carton wouldn&#8217;t fit in my car..I am looking forward to having only the 3rd new mower in my life and not having to worry about the drive breaking all the time&#8230; this one has a huge bag, too so I&#8217;ll be able to do more than 15 feet of leaves before it needs to be emptied&#8230;and it is pretty cool to just be able to buy something I need without worrying about if I could afford it or not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after I tried to repair my 25 year old Toro mower, I came to to the realization that it was beyond repair this time so I went out and bought a new mower today&#8230; a DeWalt with rear wheel drive, aluminum deck 21 inches, and a Briggs and Stratton engine&#8230;and it only cost me 388 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Had to buy a new mower&#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-34011","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\/34011","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=34011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34013,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34011\/revisions\/34013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}