{"id":3879,"date":"2009-04-24T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:19:45","slug":"dogs-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"Dogs in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend gave me the book <em>Dogs in Heaven<\/em> &#8211; it was touching to read this morning over tea and breakfast. Today would have been Arlene&#8217;s 14th birthday. I realize now in hindsight, I was keeping her around for selfish purposes &#8211; her birthday (so arbitrary to a dog, really who can figure out dog years anyway?), and T&#8217;s family coming in June, and my own need to have her near me.<\/p>\n<p>The vet called and her ashes arrived from the cremation people, ready to be picked up. It was supposed to take a week but arrived on her birthday. I guess she wants me to celebrate anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So we will. <\/p>\n<p>My sweet Bean running circles around dog heaven, Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend gave me the book Dogs in Heaven &#8211; it was touching to read this morning over tea and breakfast. Today would have been Arlene&#8217;s 14th birthday. I realize now in hindsight, I was keeping her around for selfish purposes &#8211; her birthday (so arbitrary to a dog, really who can figure out dog years anyway?), and T&#8217;s family coming in June, and my own need to have her near me. The vet called&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-10z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}