{"id":34636,"date":"2026-07-05T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34636"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:40:19","slug":"politics-is-wearing-me-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34636","title":{"rendered":"Politics is wearing me out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;as you can see, I&#8217;ve been doing less political stuff lately and that is because politics is just wearing me out and I need some time to let my brain rest and live in the world a bit&#8230;so, I did refill my weirdness bucket this morning with doing 26 miles in the pouring rain and having the trail all to myself&#8230;it was fun and warm enough that I didn&#8217;t even put my rain gear on so when I got back here I was covered in dirt and crud that filled bottom of my shower&#8230;it was the first time this year that I got 2 rides in with it raining and there were times it was raining so hard I could hear it hitting the bill of my hat over the music in my ears&#8230;I did see a few deer and some turkey babies so that made me smile&#8230;and it makes me smile even more that I am done for the day at 9:30 am and have Tour de France, World  Cup, races, and reading to keep me busy today&#8230;oh, and laundry I started when I got back&#8230;do need to get the chicken in the freezer since I&#8217;m not making masala for a while but I may bake a couple more breasts to have sandwich material for the week&#8230;I guess we&#8217;ll see&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you can see, I&#8217;ve been doing less political stuff lately and that is because politics is just wearing me out and I need some time to let my brain rest and live in the world a bit&#8230;so, I did refill my weirdness bucket this morning with doing 26 miles in the pouring rain and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics is wearing me out&#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-34636","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\/34636","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=34636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34637,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34636\/revisions\/34637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}