{"id":23147,"date":"2021-09-17T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23147"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:54:18","slug":"i-was-almost-happy-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23147","title":{"rendered":"I was almost happy this morning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.have been casting around for a topic in politics today and haven&#8217;t come up with anything yet so I think I&#8217;ll let it percolate in my brain for a while and do this one instead. When I was out on the bike this morning, with it running so good I almost felt happy for the first time in a long time&#8230;.everything is working out right now&#8230;I have money in the bank, a nice house to live in that is near the water and bike trails, and I&#8217;m still relatively healthy for an old guy&#8230;so that triggered a run out to the beach today instead of painting trim&#8230;and I got to play in some 5 foot waves again&#8230;not sure how many more times I&#8217;ll get out there but if it&#8217;s never, it was still a good summer. Normally, I hover quite near depression as I have my entire life but now the only thing I have to think about is finishing up the interior of the house and getting at the insulation in the attic&#8230;but, I have had other times when things were going well and I just couldn&#8217;t enjoy it&#8230;and some of that is still happening now, as you can see from the title&#8230;other people would be ecstatic to have my life as they struggle with their own but depression is not logical&#8230;it just is&#8230;.luckily, even when it comes, it&#8217;s not as bad as it used to be&#8230;.now I need to find a topic&#8230;more later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.have been casting around for a topic in politics today and haven&#8217;t come up with anything yet so I think I&#8217;ll let it percolate in my brain for a while and do this one instead. When I was out on the bike this morning, with it running so good I almost felt happy for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I was almost happy this morning&#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-23147","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\/23147","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=23147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23148,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions\/23148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}