{"id":1470,"date":"2012-04-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2012-04-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T08:00:00","slug":"not-leather-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"Not Leather Lately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Spring has arrived, and soon it will be summer. Hot, humid, summer.  <\/p>\n<p>I like four seasons, especially the warmer time of the year when I can ride my Harley.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I haven&#8217;t been riding much.  Time devoted to my partner and his ongoing treatments takes up a huge amount of my time. But I continue to have faith; he will be well again.  Sometime&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I hear the Harleys roaring down the road, while transporting my partner in my truck to-and-fro, from visiting doctors to ordinary and mundane chores like grocery shopping.  The good thing is that he is well enough to conduct some semblance of a normal routine.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I remain in my work boots.  That tile in the kitchen won&#8217;t lay itself. Over my aching, sore body&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QUFTB5fWimc\/T46GJskVaPI\/AAAAAAAADuI\/IS767EASfEE\/s1600\/House6.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QUFTB5fWimc\/T46GJskVaPI\/AAAAAAAADuI\/IS767EASfEE\/s400\/House6.jpg?resize=400%2C246\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>No leather, no Harley, but lots of smiles in seeing accomplishment on the tiling.  I want my kitchen back!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  keep working toward your goals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has arrived, and soon it will be summer. Hot, humid, summer. I like four seasons, especially the warmer time of the year when I can ride my Harley. Lately, I haven&#8217;t been riding much. Time devoted to my partner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}