{"id":1547,"date":"2010-11-11T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2010-11-11T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:12:12","slug":"sputtering-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Sputtering happiness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I did get out on the bike and got to 2K today&#8230;.but that&#8217;s not really the subject of this one&#8230;when I got to the top of the first climb and my water stop, there was a glimpse of the happiness that I&#8217;ve been missing&#8230;but it was like when your car is wet and you are trying to start it&#8230;it wants to start; it almost starts, then it sputters for a few seconds while you work the gas pedal trying to get it to catch, then no matter what you do it just sputters and sputters and then quits with a strange wheezing sound. The next time you try the battery starts to go dead and you feel in your stomach that it&#8217;s not going to start. That was my bike ride today&#8230;and it is so damn frustrating when you can start to feel the happiness a little but then, when you try to understand and keep it going, it&#8217;s just gone and you&#8217;re back where you were&#8230;.and it seems like such a damn fine line that you just can&#8217;t get across&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well&#8230;at least I could see across the river for a few seconds&#8230;.maybe it will come back later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I did get out on the bike and got to 2K today&#8230;.but that&#8217;s not really the subject of this one&#8230;when I got to the top of the first climb and my water stop, there was a glimpse of the happiness that I&#8217;ve been missing&#8230;but it was like when your car is wet and you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sputtering happiness&#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":[44,275],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-bike","tag-happiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}