{"id":35343,"date":"2026-10-15T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35343"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:30:16","slug":"it-finally-rained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35343","title":{"rendered":"It finally rained&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;it rained her finally and I&#8217;m glad I got the lawn mowed this morning before it started&#8230;I&#8217;ll be picking up the leaves at least once a week now that they are falling steadily&#8230;oh, well&#8230;that comes with owning a house&#8230;I did take the one winter wheel nut I had on the car off today and cleaned it and painted it with 2 coats of the silver so I can paint them all when I get the chrome tomorrow&#8230;I did get the top cleaner and dressing today and I&#8217;ll have to read the instructions on how to use it before I get started&#8230;it&#8217;s supposed to make it completely waterproof and I hope it lasts until I die so I don&#8217;t have to replace the top&#8230;a thought came to me when I was on the run to DD today and enjoying the car&#8230;it has no cowl shake at all&#8230;compared to every other convertible I&#8217;ve owned, it is solid and I can hit a big bump and nothing&#8230;my first convert, a 71 Fiat 124 spyder, would shake like a dog when you hit a bump and you could see it in the windshield moving&#8230;just like my old Miata&#8230;it took me  while to figure it out&#8230;I did finish the 2nd book out of the haul today and I may have overestimated how much time it will take to read them all&#8230;okay, I need to pick another book to read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it rained her finally and I&#8217;m glad I got the lawn mowed this morning before it started&#8230;I&#8217;ll be picking up the leaves at least once a week now that they are falling steadily&#8230;oh, well&#8230;that comes with owning a house&#8230;I did take the one winter wheel nut I had on the car off today and cleaned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It finally rained&#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-35343","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\/35343","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=35343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35344,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35343\/revisions\/35344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}