{"id":31484,"date":"2025-01-27T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31484"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:08:48","slug":"its-liberating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31484","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s liberating&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;for the first time this year, I was able to just get in the car and do the grocery run without having to shovel or worry about burying the car in the snow&#8230;and I didn&#8217;t have to plan anything&#8230;just got in the car and went&#8230;and even after I forgot to go to the library, I just got back in the car and went over there and that is just so liberating after being trapped in here for so long&#8230;and getting back in the car, I noticed that I hadn&#8217;t disconnected the battery and it would have been dead in a couple of days so that worked out well&#8230;and I got the car washed and went to DD to get 2-46 ounce cans of coffee for 10 bucks&#8230;I did forget my grocery list but remembered all but one item from Meijers and that isn&#8217;t bad for an old guy&#8230;and now I have the Parmesan I need for alfredo sauce&#8230;but I&#8217;m not going to make that until later in the week&#8230;have chicken thawed for Masala tomorrow so I&#8217;ll just have another bowl of potato soup for dinner&#8230;I did get three new books so I want to do some reading this aft&#8230;but need to take care of the dishes first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;for the first time this year, I was able to just get in the car and do the grocery run without having to shovel or worry about burying the car in the snow&#8230;and I didn&#8217;t have to plan anything&#8230;just got in the car and went&#8230;and even after I forgot to go to the library, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s liberating&#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-31484","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\/31484","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=31484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31485,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484\/revisions\/31485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}