{"id":17905,"date":"2019-03-06T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2019-03-06T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:00:43","slug":"this-is-kind-of-overwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=17905","title":{"rendered":"This is kind of overwhelming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I think there is a problem with me having some time on my hands lately&#8230;I have been sliding back to watching more news than is healthy for me&#8230;or for anyone for that matter&#8230;but it seems to be important with all that is going on in this country right now&#8230;but, that doesn&#8217;t make it any less overwhelming when new scandals explode every day&#8230;.I think I need to try to pace myself and limit the amount of news that I watch or read daily&#8230;but, that is me&#8230;I&#8217;ve always been a news junkie and wanted to know what the heck is going on&#8230;not sure why&#8230;on a daily basis, not much of the news has any impact on my life and really never has so I can&#8217;t explain it&#8230;but, I can remember waiting for the newspaper to come when I was about 7 or so and watching the nightly national news shows with Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley from even earlier than that&#8230;so I wonder if it&#8217;s something in my DNA that makes me want to understand what is going on?\u00a0 All I know is that this is an interesting time and I am being sucked back into the news that I have been avoiding since idiot boy got elected&#8230;.and I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about that&#8230;we&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I think there is a problem with me having some time on my hands lately&#8230;I have been sliding back to watching more news than is healthy for me&#8230;or for anyone for that matter&#8230;but it seems to be important with all that is going on in this country right now&#8230;but, that doesn&#8217;t make it any less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=17905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is kind of overwhelming&#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-17905","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\/17905","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=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17906,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions\/17906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}