{"id":3398,"date":"2011-08-31T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2011-08-31T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T21:16:34","slug":"musings-on-the-end-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"Musings on the end of the month&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;another month is gone and with it, the summer here in Michigan and I know it&#8217;s a cliche but I don&#8217;t know where it went&#8230;it has been a summer of being as frugal as possible which has forced me to get creative to keep from going stir crazy here. It&#8217;s the first summer in 10 that there has been no one to do anything with and also the first one in that time that I haven&#8217;t been out on someone&#8217;s boat&#8230;I did get out to Lake Michigan a couple of times but there have been no pool parties at K&#8217;s and I miss that&#8230;.haven&#8217;t golfed, either, but that is probably my fault but it is nowhere near as much fun to go alone&#8230;.no, this is not a whining post, just a free form set of thoughts about where things stand and a recap of the Michigan summer&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m still optimistic about finding a job&#8230;many, many resumes have gone out with only one response that didn&#8217;t turn into anything but what&#8217;s the alternative? To curl up into a ball and say &#8220;poor me?&#8221; Nope, that&#8217;s not me and I&#8217;ll keep on trying every day&#8230;keep trying to keep my spirits up, and keep smiling at the sky when I&#8217;m on the bike, and keep grinning that I still have my health and what little of the brain that still works&#8230;.and I get to do this everyday&#8230;not a bad life considering&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;this is number 62 for the month&#8230;made it&#8230;again&#8230;.the streak is alive!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;another month is gone and with it, the summer here in Michigan and I know it&#8217;s a cliche but I don&#8217;t know where it went&#8230;it has been a summer of being as frugal as possible which has forced me to get creative to keep from going stir crazy here. It&#8217;s the first summer in 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musings on the end of the month&#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-3398","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\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}