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So it looks like <@715580668045951047> was correct in pointed out I was only spying on the url and not stubbing the response.  And thanks for the course: <@715580668045951047> , I went through everything and it has some good content. I now have this code which does not seem to need the `cy.wait()` command I was using in an earlier implementation:
`describe('visit and interact with home page', () => {
    const apiURL = `${Cypress.env('apiUrl')}`

    it('visit and interact with home page', () => {
        cy.intercept('GET', `${apiURL}/*`, {
            statusCode: 200,
            body: {
                data: {
                    id: '1',
                },
            },
        }).as('getApi')
        cy.intercept('POST', `http://localhost:8545*`, {
            statusCode: 200,
            body: {
                data: {
                    id: '1',
                },
            },
        }).as('post8545')
        // cy.wait('@getApi')
        cy.visit('/')
    })
})`
Still refactoring this, but the test is passing and the routes display that they are stubbed like they should.