{"id":34649,"date":"2026-07-07T13:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34649"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:11:28","slug":"not-too-bad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34649","title":{"rendered":"Not too bad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;had the checkup this morning and it was better than expected&#8230;when I got there they took my BP and it was under 130 which is so unusual when it is normally over 150 when I get there&#8230; and my weight is under 170 for the first time since I was young and the no drinking and starving seems to be working&#8230;every other test was okay with nothing raising any red flags&#8230;except my cholesterol which we have been tracking since I moved out here and the doctor recommended that we try the lowest dose statin and see if that will be enough to prevent a heart attack or stroke&#8230;and my doctor said to &#8220;keep doing what you&#8217;re doing&#8221; and said my health is better than 99% of his patients&#8230;whether or not I believe that, I don&#8217;t know but it does feel good that the work I&#8217;m doing is helping&#8230;so I&#8217;m going to enjoy that a bit this afternoon and do some reading&#8230;beach was nice but the water appears to be ready to turn over and get cold again&#8230;oh, well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;had the checkup this morning and it was better than expected&#8230;when I got there they took my BP and it was under 130 which is so unusual when it is normally over 150 when I get there&#8230; and my weight is under 170 for the first time since I was young and the no drinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not too bad&#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-34649","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\/34649","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=34649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34650,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34649\/revisions\/34650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}