{"id":34189,"date":"2026-05-11T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34189"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:45:48","slug":"may-11th-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34189","title":{"rendered":"May 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;got up this morning and feel like I&#8217;ve been on a 3 day bender and that is just wrong&#8230;I mean 5 weeks of no booze and I shouldn&#8217;t feel like this&#8230;it&#8217;s probably from not eating enough but shouldn&#8217;t an orange, a bowl of soup, and a plate of chicken stir fry be enough for me? Woke up at 3:04 this morning and just said &#8220;hell no&#8221; and was able to get back to sleep&#8230;kinda..until a little after 5 and even had some dreams in those two hours that I have no clue what they were about&#8230;but I&#8217;ll take them after not dreaming for years&#8230;one good thing yesterday was that I was able to taste peanut butter for the first time in years and I can&#8217;t let myself have hope that my sense of taste is going to improve&#8230;after all, it&#8217;s been years since that sense has been more than a memory to me and I don&#8217;t want to be disappointed&#8230;have been so sore the past few days that I had to take an ibuprofen yesterday and it looks like today, too&#8230;I sure hope this is not where I&#8217;m going to be with this old body as I get older&#8230;I did want to know what it feels like to be my age and I&#8217;m not sure if I like it too much if it&#8217;s going to feel like this&#8230;not much to do today&#8230;just the normal stuff that I need to get on right now&#8230;then read a bit til it gets warm enough to go outside for a ride&#8230;no cooking for the next few days but lots of reading to finish the last book before the grocery run Wed&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;got up this morning and feel like I&#8217;ve been on a 3 day bender and that is just wrong&#8230;I mean 5 weeks of no booze and I shouldn&#8217;t feel like this&#8230;it&#8217;s probably from not eating enough but shouldn&#8217;t an orange, a bowl of soup, and a plate of chicken stir fry be enough for me? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 11th<\/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-34189","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\/34189","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=34189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34191,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34189\/revisions\/34191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}