{"id":34911,"date":"2026-08-17T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34911"},"modified":"2026-08-17T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:41:12","slug":"august-17th-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34911","title":{"rendered":"August 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;up at 5:00 am again today and the exhaustion I was feeling yesterday is still here and the only way I know how to help that is to pour a lot of coffee down me&#8230;so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing&#8230;I guess we&#8217;ll see how it works&#8230;I did make another pot this morning to go with the leftovers from yesterday that I&#8217;m starting out with&#8230;and that will leave me with enough to fill the contego for the 2nd ride&#8230;slept the same crappy sleep I have been for years so I&#8217;m not going to talk about that&#8230;have a lot of work to do today after the rides but that seems like too much with how I&#8217;m feeling&#8230;I think I may have to lighten the riding up to see if that helps&#8230;after all, I&#8217;ve been doing 26 miles a day since April and my body could use a light day&#8230;but then I&#8217;ll feel guilty and it will ruin the rest of the day&#8230;still no rain here for weeks so I&#8217;ll only have to mow the front today&#8230;but the rest of the lawn is looking shaggy in spots so I guess we&#8217;ll see&#8230;I do need to cement over the hornet holes today, too but that will only take about 5 minutes to add to the painting&#8230;still should be done by 11 or so but resting doesn&#8217;t help so I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll do&#8230;I do know that I used up all the leftovers yesterday and need to cook some chicken so I&#8217;ll have sandwich material to have with the pasta salad&#8230;I&#8217;ll need to thaw some pork loin fillets to have later so I need to get those out of the freezer before I head out on the bike&#8230;.more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;up at 5:00 am again today and the exhaustion I was feeling yesterday is still here and the only way I know how to help that is to pour a lot of coffee down me&#8230;so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing&#8230;I guess we&#8217;ll see how it works&#8230;I did make another pot this morning to go with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 17th<\/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-34911","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\/34911","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=34911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34912,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911\/revisions\/34912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}