{"id":1763,"date":"2026-08-01T21:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:54:24","slug":"friday-july-31st-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Friday, July 31st, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the day went to errands, the ordinary maintenance of a life, and I will not pretend it was more than that. The exception was the tree stump. I bought a mattock for it and set to work; the ground gave more than it did to the shovel, but less than I had hoped, and the stump is still there. It will come out eventually. Some things yield only to patience and repeated blows, and I have decided to have both. In the evening I made ceviche, this time from a Mexican recipe that cures the shrimp raw. A fair reward for a day spent mostly in service to the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the day went to errands, the ordinary maintenance of a life, and I will not pretend it was more than that. The exception was the tree stump. I bought a mattock for it and set to work; the ground gave more than it did to the shovel, but less than I had hoped, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}