{"id":34101,"date":"2026-04-30T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34101"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:43:06","slug":"things-are-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34101","title":{"rendered":"Things are easier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;as I run up on 30 days with no booze, it hit me today that things have gotten easier to do as time has gone on&#8230;the 8 miles on the indoor bike today just flew by and I averaged over 14mph when I normally struggle to keep it at 12&#8230;and then I went out and mowed the lawn this morning and it was just easy&#8230;or easier than it has been for years&#8230;I know part of that is the lighter lawnmower that I don&#8217;t have to wrestle around to do the job but even after I was done, I just felt good and was walking easily instead of dragging my butt back into the house&#8230;oh, and I saw a bald eagle fly over my house as I was mowing&#8230;pretty cool&#8230;just finished the last book and I think I&#8217;ll take the rest of the day off reading and just fool around with little things to keep myself busy&#8230;or not even busy since I haven&#8217;t had a day like that in a long time&#8230;so, I think I&#8217;ll read some news and  few of the car websites I like and just take it easy&#8230;I do need food since I&#8217;m done with the pork shoulder after dinner so I guess it will be potato soup tomorrow morning so I&#8217;ll have some for lunch&#8230;stir fry in the new pan will wait til sat after the chicken thaws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I run up on 30 days with no booze, it hit me today that things have gotten easier to do as time has gone on&#8230;the 8 miles on the indoor bike today just flew by and I averaged over 14mph when I normally struggle to keep it at 12&#8230;and then I went out and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things are easier&#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-34101","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\/34101","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=34101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34102,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101\/revisions\/34102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}