{"id":1253,"date":"2010-09-28T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:38:04","slug":"lets-lighten-the-mood-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s lighten the mood a little&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I do recognize I&#8217;ve begun to slide back to a certain stridency that I have been trying to overcome for some time now&#8230;but I think there is a place for outrage and I&#8217;m going to keep some of it since people are just not paying attention to what is going on. But, right now&#8230;let&#8217;s take it down a notch, to borrow from Jon Stewart. I was going to issue a caterpillar alert from observations on the ride today but the density was just not there yet&#8230;only 18 per hundred feet when the acceptable national standard for an alert is 20. But, stay ready for tomorrow since the trend over the past week has been upward&#8230;.should I include the graphs here? Probably not&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did the math wrong and, in the interest of accuracy, need to report that I haven&#8217;t equaled last years&#8217; record of 1700 miles on the bike&#8230;.about a hundred miles short as of today&#8230;but I do get to celebrate again later this week when I really get there so that is something to look forward to&#8230;and I know you are waiting and holding your breath for the milestone to be reached&#8230;don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll let you know&#8230;you can go back to work now&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I do recognize I&#8217;ve begun to slide back to a certain stridency that I have been trying to overcome for some time now&#8230;but I think there is a place for outrage and I&#8217;m going to keep some of it since people are just not paying attention to what is going on. But, right now&#8230;let&#8217;s take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s lighten the mood a little&#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-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}