{"id":34936,"date":"2026-08-20T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34936"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:47:08","slug":"lots-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34936","title":{"rendered":"Lots of rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;I knew it rained a lot here Tuesday when I noticed that the animal water container was full to overflowing when I only filled to half full&#8230;and I just read in the news that we got 3.35 inches of rain in that storm&#8230;that&#8217;s a hell of a lot of rain for a few hours and it even flooded US 31 under the overpass near my house and they had to close it with 4 feet of water there&#8230;yow! But that still won&#8217;t help my yard at all since it&#8217;s built on sand and all of the water just drains through when it rains&#8230;but I&#8217;ll take whatever we can get&#8230;I did order some stuff for the Italy trip today&#8230; another pair of shorts, a power converter that gives me American outlets when I plug it in to European electricity&#8230;and I also added another kilo of espresso beans since I could still get them for 14 bucks&#8230;I needed the shorts since it&#8217;s supposed to be near 80 for a high in September in Italy and there is no way I&#8217;m walking around in jeans&#8230;and that stuff will be here between 4 and 8am tomorrow&#8230;now I just need to do an early check in with Southwest for my trip to Richmond to hang with my daughter for a couple of days before we fly to Italy&#8230;might look for a couple more shirts to take with me since I only have 5 and I&#8217;ll be gone 2 weeks&#8230;maybe we&#8217;ll have a hotel with a laundry again like we did in Scotland&#8230;that would be cool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I knew it rained a lot here Tuesday when I noticed that the animal water container was full to overflowing when I only filled to half full&#8230;and I just read in the news that we got 3.35 inches of rain in that storm&#8230;that&#8217;s a hell of a lot of rain for a few hours and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lots of rain&#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-34936","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\/34936","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=34936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34937,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34936\/revisions\/34937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}