{"id":20686,"date":"2020-07-26T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20686"},"modified":"2020-07-26T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:35:02","slug":"another-depressing-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20686","title":{"rendered":"Another depressing day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s been another depressing day in a depressing week that is turning into a depressing life and I&#8217;m sure I don&#8217;t like it much&#8230;not getting anything accomplished with the damn heat and knowing that if I work in it it&#8217;s going to flare my foot again and I&#8217;ll be off my feet for another week&#8230;but I need to get off my ass and finish this house soon since all of my efforts now need to be focused on finding a house that I feel is going to be impossible with the weird assed housing market right now&#8230;prices are exploding and I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m priced out of the market&#8230;houses that were going for 120K a couple of months ago are now priced over 150K and that&#8217;s too rich for me&#8230;.and the prospect of going back into an apartment at my age is just too ugly to contemplate&#8230;.so, I&#8217;ve got about 5 months to figure something out&#8230;.and the stress from all of that is always in the back of my head so I can&#8217;t really enjoy anything anymore&#8230;.I&#8217;m getting too old for this crap&#8230;and my option of just pulling up stakes for somewhere else is gone with two of my kids expecting grandkids and I do want to be part of their lives&#8230;so taking what cash is left and moving to Costa Rica is off the table&#8230;.I don&#8217;t even enjoy getting on the bike anymore but I still do it because I&#8217;m supposed to and I have a goal that I need to meet&#8230;don&#8217;t even care about that anymore&#8230;can you tell I&#8217;m depressed? I can&#8230;.and my sunflowers are dying and my three important plants out back are dying, too and I&#8217;m not sure why that would be&#8230;and my tomatoes are dying to the point that I&#8217;ll probably get a dozen tomatoes off 20 plants and that is depressing too&#8230;.should probably just pull them all out so I don&#8217;t have to take care of them anymore&#8230;have already pulled out 6 of them that weren&#8217;t growing any tomatoes on them and chopped down 6 sunflowers that were attacked by that damn squirrel and a couple that were just mutated and weren&#8217;t going to blossom&#8230;.oh, well&#8230;I&#8217;ll get over it in time&#8230;and maybe something will happen that will lift the depression&#8230;what that would be, I don&#8217;t know but it&#8217;s happened every time and just took time&#8230;.so I wait&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s been another depressing day in a depressing week that is turning into a depressing life and I&#8217;m sure I don&#8217;t like it much&#8230;not getting anything accomplished with the damn heat and knowing that if I work in it it&#8217;s going to flare my foot again and I&#8217;ll be off my feet for another week&#8230;but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another depressing day&#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-20686","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\/20686","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=20686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20687,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions\/20687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}