{"id":34502,"date":"2026-06-18T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34502"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:24:45","slug":"bailed-on-the-rides-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34502","title":{"rendered":"Bailed on the rides today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;damn, I feel like a slug today after bailing on the 2nd ride this morning&#8230;got the first one done in the cold at 53 with a north wind of 25mph&#8230;a struggle but I gutted through it&#8230;and I filled my coffee cup and got back on the bike and got out about half way and it started to rain and that was the last straw&#8230;I could take the cold and the wind but I just couldn&#8217;t get wet&#8230;I still did some but it wasn&#8217;t running off me like it has in the past&#8230;reminded me I used to be tougher when I was younger&#8230;I remember being out in November at 37 degrees and it started raining so hard that I could only see about 20 feet in front of me and, by the time I got home after about 4 miles, I had to pour the rain out of my shoes I was so wet&#8230;giving up won&#8217;t happen again&#8230;I&#8217;ll put my raingear on and go anyway just to prove to myself I can still take it&#8230;so it&#8217;s been an easy day today but I did run out to aldis to get the veggies I need for the pork shoulder I&#8217;m making this weekend&#8230;made chicken stir fry today that will last 5 days or so and I baked a couple of breasts so I can have a 2nd meal of sandwiches I can eat..now it&#8217;s time to read a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;damn, I feel like a slug today after bailing on the 2nd ride this morning&#8230;got the first one done in the cold at 53 with a north wind of 25mph&#8230;a struggle but I gutted through it&#8230;and I filled my coffee cup and got back on the bike and got out about half way and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bailed on the rides today&#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-34502","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\/34502","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=34502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34503,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions\/34503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}