{"id":34494,"date":"2026-06-17T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34494"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:22:21","slug":"the-grocery-run-made-me-grin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34494","title":{"rendered":"The grocery run made me grin.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;the grocery run today started out pretty normal until I got to the e-way&#8230;stopped there at the light with no one in front of me and when I took off, it was an easy 1-2 and 2-3 shift but once in 3rd, I did a &#8220;Italian tuneup&#8221; of the car with running it up to 7,200 rpms when the rev limiter came in and said &#8220;stop idiot&#8221; and I actually laughed out loud&#8230;then I got to aldis and decided to buy a dozen eggs since they were only 1.44 and I have been enjoying egg salad sandwiches lately&#8230;when I opened the container to check for broken eggs, there was a brown egg in it and I laughed out loud&#8230;the guy stocking the shelves looked at me like I was crazy and I thought &#8220;yes I am&#8221;&#8230;then I went to Meijers for the rest of the groceries and to see if I could get a small pork shoulder for 1.79 a pound&#8230;and I found one that was only about 6 pounds and was boneless when every other one I&#8217;ve bought had a pound of bone in it&#8230;so that was only a little over 8 bucks instead of 17 like the rest of them&#8230;and then when I was checking out, &#8220;Peg&#8221; by Steely Dan came on the speakers and I laughed again&#8230;I had the top down on the car and it was so much fun since it has been working so well lately&#8230;so the morning was good with getting two rides in along with all of the cool stuff on the grocery run&#8230;nice to have fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the grocery run today started out pretty normal until I got to the e-way&#8230;stopped there at the light with no one in front of me and when I took off, it was an easy 1-2 and 2-3 shift but once in 3rd, I did a &#8220;Italian tuneup&#8221; of the car with running it up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The grocery run made me grin..<\/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-34494","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\/34494","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=34494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34495,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions\/34495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}