{"id":35466,"date":"2026-11-02T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35466"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:48:38","slug":"a-bit-of-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35466","title":{"rendered":"A bit of a day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;you know it may not be an optimal day when you break a pedal on the bike 7 miles away from home&#8230;and that happened to me on the 2nd ride when the right pedal failed on the boardwalk and just fell off the shaft that it rotates on&#8230;so I had to ride back here pushing the pedal back on the shaft all the way&#8230;what a pain but I got pretty good at keeping it on and still made good time coming back&#8230;and I always have spare pedals in the cabinet just for this kind of thing and I didn&#8217;t need to dip into the new pair but used a new one that was in another box in the cabinet on my bike shelf&#8230;so, I changed that out pretty easily and will be back out there in shorts again tomorrow with the low only getting down to 56&#8230;and I have one more day of that before it gets cold again&#8230;after I got back here, I jumped right into picking up the first batch of leaves that took longer than I expected with filling 8 bags and I wasn&#8217;t done til almost 11am making it 6 hours of busy, busy&#8230;but then all I did was read off and on this afternoon&#8230;I did get my new medicare card today so I&#8217;m all set with that for another year and that takes a load off&#8230;tomorrow looks pretty easy since I&#8217;m doing the grocery run on it&#8217;s normal day this week and that leaves me free to work on the back door if the part gets here&#8230;okay&#8230;time to look for something on tv for tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know it may not be an optimal day when you break a pedal on the bike 7 miles away from home&#8230;and that happened to me on the 2nd ride when the right pedal failed on the boardwalk and just fell off the shaft that it rotates on&#8230;so I had to ride back here pushing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bit of a day&#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-35466","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\/35466","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=35466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35467,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35466\/revisions\/35467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}