{"id":34698,"date":"2026-07-14T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34698"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:42:10","slug":"an-ugly-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34698","title":{"rendered":"An ugly 4 days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;my most hated days of the year start tomorrow with Michigan&#8217;s largest motorcycle event going on for the next 4 days&#8230;lots of racing motorcycles through my neighborhood at 70 mph in a 25 zone and burnouts and lots of bad country music that is so loud it sounds like the band is set up on my front yard&#8230;4 frickin days of this crap and the cops just let these assholes do whatever they like through the neighborhoods&#8230;yeah, I know that sounds like sour grapes but who the hell is this for&#8230;less than 10% of the participants are from Muskegon so those who come here don&#8217;t really care about trashing this place that then takes a week to clean up&#8230;but I guess they do spend a little money here and last year they had a car show over at the Harley dealer that was cool&#8230;damn, when did I get to be such a pessimist? I guess hundreds of bikes revving their engines all day will do that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;my most hated days of the year start tomorrow with Michigan&#8217;s largest motorcycle event going on for the next 4 days&#8230;lots of racing motorcycles through my neighborhood at 70 mph in a 25 zone and burnouts and lots of bad country music that is so loud it sounds like the band is set up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An ugly 4 days&#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-34698","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\/34698","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=34698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34699,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions\/34699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}