{"id":34909,"date":"2026-08-16T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34909"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:35:13","slug":"is-exhaustion-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34909","title":{"rendered":"Is exhaustion normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;spent another day exhausted and I am starting to wonder is exhaustion normal for someone as old as me? Have had no energy all day and even lying on the couch reading seemed to be a lot of work&#8230;took a short nap this afternoon of about 15 minutes and that didn&#8217;t help at all&#8230;I ate a ton of food today starting with a toasted bagel with cream cheese for breakfast&#8230;2 dogs and a good sized helping of the pasta salad I made this morning, and then a pork chop with mashed potatoes and corn for dinner&#8230;that has to be 1,500 calories or so and that should be more than enough to not feel so damn tired&#8230;and I&#8217;m even going to have a snack later of ham, swiss and triscuits so that should put me well over what I need&#8230;oh, well&#8230;didn&#8217;t do any work today but I&#8217;ll get back to it tomorrow with edging the front lawn and mowing it but won&#8217;t do the rest of it since it doesn&#8217;t need it&#8230;so that will give me time to prep and paint the garage door trim and finish up the outdoor work for the summer&#8230;.I was out on the bike before 6am this morning and it was really, really dark&#8230;I may have to buy a light for the bike if I keep that up&#8230;and I really need to to have the rides done before 8:30 so I can get on with the rest of the work&#8230;okay, done for the day and need to find something to watch&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;spent another day exhausted and I am starting to wonder is exhaustion normal for someone as old as me? Have had no energy all day and even lying on the couch reading seemed to be a lot of work&#8230;took a short nap this afternoon of about 15 minutes and that didn&#8217;t help at all&#8230;I ate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is exhaustion normal?<\/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-34909","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\/34909","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=34909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34910,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions\/34910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}