{"id":34616,"date":"2026-07-02T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34616"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:09:35","slug":"miatas-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34616","title":{"rendered":"Miatas at the beach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;it was kind of a disjointed day today when the threat of a  storm with lightning stopped me after the first ride as I waited it out&#8230;after a while all of the clouds went away so I put the top down on the car and went to the library to get more books and when I got back here I got right back on the bike for a 2nd ride&#8230;when I was sitting at my water stop on the boardwalk, a black Miata pulled into the beach and parked and, as I was leaving I yelled down to the guy that he had a nice car and I had one, too&#8230;his was all black with a 5 speed and a 2009 that only had 28K miles on it&#8230;after that I rode home and since I was going to the beach anyway, I pulled in next to him and we sat there and talked about the cars&#8230;kinda fun and we had a mini Miata rally and I have a photo of both cars sitting together&#8230;then I went swimming for a bit and got scorched even with 50 sunscreen on so I decided that was the last time to the beach til next week&#8230;and with tomorrow being a holiday, it is going to be too busy out there&#8230;but, If I could get out there right after the rides around 9am or so, it wouldn&#8217;t be so bad&#8230;but we&#8217;ll se what my skin says in the morning&#8230;it&#8217;s supposed to rain but I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it&#8230;the rain has been missing us to the north all day and it appears that is going to continue&#8230;oh, well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it was kind of a disjointed day today when the threat of a storm with lightning stopped me after the first ride as I waited it out&#8230;after a while all of the clouds went away so I put the top down on the car and went to the library to get more books and when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miatas at the beach&#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-34616","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\/34616","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=34616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34617,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34616\/revisions\/34617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}