{"id":34794,"date":"2026-07-30T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34794"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:08:00","slug":"went-out-to-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34794","title":{"rendered":"Went out to the beach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;after not being out to the beach all week, I decided to go out there today but the water was too darn cold to swim so it was kind of a worthless trip&#8230;I know I&#8217;m whining about going to the beach and that&#8217;s pretty weird&#8230;it was still an hour and half of relaxing but I&#8217;m still having problems doing that&#8230;oh, well&#8230;when I got back here I washed the back door and used car wax to wax it so it would look nice like the trim does&#8230;and it does look nice so now I guess it&#8217;s time to do the trim on the door to the garage and then wash and wax that door, too&#8230; and the front door trim is showing it&#8217;s age, too so I should give that a once over&#8230;but it will be easier since I don&#8217;t have to do the raw wood on the inside of the door this time&#8230;it was so clear today that I could see the smokestack of the power plant in Grand Haven today from 12 miles away and it&#8217;s been a while since I could say that&#8230;.going to have to hit the freezer for meals tomorrow or make the potato soup I&#8217;ve been talking about for weeks&#8230;not sure which yet&#8230;I&#8217;ll have another easy day tomorrow with nothing to do but the weights and bike rides and maybe out to the beach again&#8230;we&#8217;ll see&#8230;I could probably get the front door trim painted but it may rain tomorrow night so I&#8217;ll have to check the weather first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after not being out to the beach all week, I decided to go out there today but the water was too darn cold to swim so it was kind of a worthless trip&#8230;I know I&#8217;m whining about going to the beach and that&#8217;s pretty weird&#8230;it was still an hour and half of relaxing but I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Went out to the beach&#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-34794","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\/34794","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=34794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34795,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions\/34795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}