{"id":34930,"date":"2026-08-20T06:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34930"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:34:57","slug":"august-20th-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34930","title":{"rendered":"August 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;damn, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m doing it but I didn&#8217;t get up til almost 6am this morning but I don&#8217;t feel better from it..it&#8217;s only 56 degrees out there so I&#8217;ll have to wear a modified thermasuit this morning&#8230;okay, a long sleeved shirt&#8230;that&#8217;s not as dramatic sounding&#8230;I think I did get the hornet thing sorted since there aren&#8217;t any downstairs but I&#8217;ll have to take a look outside when it gets light&#8230;got every little crack and crevice cemented over yesterday so there is no way for them to get back in&#8230;or out for that matter&#8230;so, I&#8217;m not getting on the bike til almost 7am since I do need more coffee and to toast a bagel to have some fuel for the rides&#8230;not sure what else I have to do today&#8230;made another jar of pickles and one of pickled red onions y3esterday and I added a bit to that recipe to give it some bite&#8230;a little cayenne pepper just like I add to the pickles&#8230;need to be able to taste something&#8230;added the 2% milk that I bought yesterday to my coffee but I can&#8217;t taste any difference&#8230;maybe I will when I drink it for lunch&#8230;who knows? not much to do today&#8230;need to clean the kitchen and probably will with nothing else on the agenda but putting brush killer on the crappy shrub so I don&#8217;t have to keep trimming it&#8230;and I do need to cut the perennials down and clean up the side and back of the house that I can now get to without the damn hornets swarming&#8230;.more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;damn, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m doing it but I didn&#8217;t get up til almost 6am this morning but I don&#8217;t feel better from it..it&#8217;s only 56 degrees out there so I&#8217;ll have to wear a modified thermasuit this morning&#8230;okay, a long sleeved shirt&#8230;that&#8217;s not as dramatic sounding&#8230;I think I did get the hornet thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 20th<\/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-34930","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\/34930","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=34930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34931,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34930\/revisions\/34931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}