{"id":7424,"date":"2013-10-08T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:54:56","slug":"milestones-and-praying-mantises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7424","title":{"rendered":"Milestones and praying mantises&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;over the past week, there have been some milestones on the bike that I have hinted at but have just done the math and now I can really report them&#8230;.first&#8230;this is the sixth year in a row I have gone at lest 2,000 miles on the bike&#8230;and with adding up the total mileage (yeah, I write that stuff down) I find that I have done over 17,000 miles on this bike, not the 16K that I thought I&#8217;d done&#8230;when I look at the globe and see where that would get me, I could have ridden to India heading west from here&#8230;and that makes it only 8K miles that I need to still do to have ridden the thing around the world&#8230;and that is kind of weird&#8230;but, cool when you think of it. The second thing is the praying mantises&#8230;I saw more than a dozen of them on the trail just sunning themselves&#8230;not sure but I think this is pretty late in the year for so many of those things to be around&#8230;but, it was neat to see&#8230;.no more trail weirdness right now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;over the past week, there have been some milestones on the bike that I have hinted at but have just done the math and now I can really report them&#8230;.first&#8230;this is the sixth year in a row I have gone at lest 2,000 miles on the bike&#8230;and with adding up the total mileage (yeah, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Milestones and praying mantises&#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-7424","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\/7424","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=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}