{"id":31388,"date":"2025-01-14T06:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31388"},"modified":"2025-01-14T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:56:29","slug":"january-14th-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31388","title":{"rendered":"January 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I feel so damn small this morning&#8230;got an e-mail from the city commissioner that I whined to about the snow removal problems and she told me that she just lost her son and that&#8217;s why she didn&#8217;t get back to me sooner&#8230;I guess that puts my tiny little problem in perspective&#8230;.and I really don&#8217;t know why I reacted so strongly to the snow&#8230;after all, I&#8217;m really good at driving in it after doing it for the past 56 years&#8230;and doing it on bald tires when I was younger&#8230;.I will e-mail her back this morning with my condolences&#8230;okay, I just did that&#8230;but I don&#8217;t feel better&#8230;I know the world continues to spin but the loss of a child is terrible&#8230;it changed my brother when he lost AJ and he was never the same&#8230;okay, life goes on&#8230;damn, I slept okay last night with not getting up til after 5:30 and then out of bed a little after 6 and I need to get moving&#8230;why, I don&#8217;t know but I want to get on the bike by 7 and that is 14 minutes away&#8230;more coffee first&#8230;today is going to be an easy day with only having to make some Masala for lunch&#8230;BP was down to 127\/72 this morning and the pharmacist gave me the same advice the NP gave me&#8230;stop taking your blood pressure so much&#8230;and I am going to take that advice&#8230;not much to do today&#8230;just the rides and cooking and a little introspection&#8230;.and maybe some cleaning&#8230;and I am going to let myself understand how lucky I&#8217;ve been in my life&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I feel so damn small this morning&#8230;got an e-mail from the city commissioner that I whined to about the snow removal problems and she told me that she just lost her son and that&#8217;s why she didn&#8217;t get back to me sooner&#8230;I guess that puts my tiny little problem in perspective&#8230;.and I really don&#8217;t know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 14th<\/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-31388","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\/31388","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=31388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31389,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388\/revisions\/31389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}