{"id":34405,"date":"2026-06-06T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34405"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:37:38","slug":"rolled-the-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34405","title":{"rendered":"Rolled the dice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;after seeing that the ground coffee I bought a few weeks ago has doubled in price, I took a look at the Hills Brothers beans that I bought a week or so ago for 11 bucks for 32 ozs and it was still priced at that so I ordered another bag of beans this morning to make sure I don&#8217;t run out of coffee as the price soars on all of it&#8230;I mean the beans I used to buy at 13 bucks are now 37 dollars&#8230;who the hell can afford that? So, I rolled the dice even without tasting them but I have the advantage (disadvantage?) of not being able taste much so I don&#8217;t think of coffee as anything but a CDS (caffeine delivery system) and any of it should work for that&#8230;I also bought some cheap post it notes that I can use to make notes to myself like I used to when I was working&#8230;and I bought 8 100w LED light bulbs since I don&#8217;t have any spares here and these were cheaper than even at the dollar store where I used to get them for a buck but are now 1.50&#8230;that stuff will be here tomorrow but the coffee is going to take a couple of weeks for some reason..who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after seeing that the ground coffee I bought a few weeks ago has doubled in price, I took a look at the Hills Brothers beans that I bought a week or so ago for 11 bucks for 32 ozs and it was still priced at that so I ordered another bag of beans this morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rolled the dice&#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-34405","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\/34405","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=34405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34406,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34405\/revisions\/34406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}