{"id":35260,"date":"2026-10-03T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35260"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:30:23","slug":"october-3rd-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35260","title":{"rendered":"October 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;was up til 12:30 am and just got up at 6am and I&#8217;m okay with that&#8230; I think I&#8217;ve read that going east to west is easier than the other way around and it does feel like that&#8230;after being up for 25 hours yesterday, 5 hours of sleep or so seems like enough&#8230;for now&#8230;but I guess we&#8217;ll see later&#8230;have to get up at 4:30 or so tomorrow morning so that will be the test&#8230;it is nice to be back in the states and be able to use my phone again after having it in airplane mode for 2 weeks and having to do the math to figure out the time&#8230;it read edt the whole time I was gone even hooked up to wifi in every hotel but my tablet did have the right time so at least I had one thing that did&#8230;even my laptop had the time from here on it but I&#8217;m not going to worry about that now&#8230;had so much fun on the trip and saw so much that I&#8217;m going to have to think about it and keep all my photos to jog my memory as time goes on&#8230;we&#8217;ll have a nice day of doing nothing today but going out to dinner later and getting checked in for the flight tomorrow morning&#8230;and getting caught up on these as I edge back into my old routine&#8230;I tried to keep my end up of paying some of the cost for the trip by buying dinner every day and I think I burned around 500 bucks on them&#8230;but I did come back with over 100 euros left so I&#8217;ll probably have to take them to the bank to exchange&#8230;the only things I spent money on was a new Italian leather wallet and a coffee mug from Venice&#8230;and I&#8217;m going to try it out when I get home and make some whole bean coffee that I&#8217;m going to drink in the afternoon tomorrow when I get home&#8230;have lots of laundry to do&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;was up til 12:30 am and just got up at 6am and I&#8217;m okay with that&#8230; I think I&#8217;ve read that going east to west is easier than the other way around and it does feel like that&#8230;after being up for 25 hours yesterday, 5 hours of sleep or so seems like enough&#8230;for now&#8230;but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 3rd<\/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-35260","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\/35260","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=35260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35261,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260\/revisions\/35261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}