{"id":35472,"date":"2026-11-03T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35472"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:06:20","slug":"wind-is-good-for-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35472","title":{"rendered":"Wind is good for something&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;from the time I went out for the rides this morning, the wind has been blowing about 25mph out of the south and I figured out that it is good for something&#8230;I went to the back door to see if the new seals were leaking and they weren&#8217;t&#8230;no air at all coming through and if this is how they perform in a 25 mph wind, I think they&#8217;ll be fine for the winter&#8230;and that&#8217;s one less thing I have to think about getting ready for winter&#8230;I still do need to buy some new furnace filters and I&#8217;ll get them this week when I go out to look for a new snow shovel&#8230;I wonder if the roads by Menards are finished yet? The last time I had to wind through a mall to get there and that was a pain and don&#8217;t want to do that again&#8230;it was 60 degrees when I went out this morning before 6am so I was in shorts and I may have one more day before the bottom falls out of the low temps&#8230;I am already used to dressing warmly for the rides since we&#8217;ve had some 30&#8217;s already but I&#8217;m not used to the cold yet&#8230;that will take a couple of weeks and judicious use of the heating pad when I get back from the rides&#8230;okay&#8230;have been avoiding any and all reporting ont he election and I&#8217;ll keep that up all day&#8230;so back to reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;from the time I went out for the rides this morning, the wind has been blowing about 25mph out of the south and I figured out that it is good for something&#8230;I went to the back door to see if the new seals were leaking and they weren&#8217;t&#8230;no air at all coming through and if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wind is good for something&#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-35472","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\/35472","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=35472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35473,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35472\/revisions\/35473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}