{"id":34020,"date":"2026-04-18T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34020"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:20:31","slug":"the-mower-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34020","title":{"rendered":"The mower is okay&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;I did get the new mower set up today and mowed the lawn for the first time with it and I can say it&#8217;s okay&#8230;my big concern was that it wouldn&#8217;t be fast enough for my walking speed but the thing will run away from me when I have the belt pulled tight so that&#8217;s cool&#8230;and the bag was easy to put together and it is huge&#8230;I only had to empty it 4 times to do the whole lawn&#8230;the height adjustments are cool, too with just one for the front and one for the back that are easy to adjust&#8230;it started after three pulls and then just one easy one to restart it&#8230;and I used the clamp that came with the toro to hold the on\/off bar down so I don&#8217;t have to think about that&#8230;I do need to adjust the tension on the drive belt to take tension off it and make it smoother but I&#8217;ve already made it much better as I used it&#8230;so now I have another last&#8230;the last lawnmower I&#8217;ll ever buy&#8230;and that&#8217;s okay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I did get the new mower set up today and mowed the lawn for the first time with it and I can say it&#8217;s okay&#8230;my big concern was that it wouldn&#8217;t be fast enough for my walking speed but the thing will run away from me when I have the belt pulled tight so that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The mower is okay&#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-34020","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\/34020","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=34020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34021,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020\/revisions\/34021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}