{"id":9192,"date":"2010-09-13T09:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2010-09-13T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T14:18:54","slug":"the-royal-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9192","title":{"rendered":"The royal gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very fond of our zoo here at the LaLa despite the fact that Heidi the German Shedder has left a coating of dog fur from one end of the house to the other and barks at anyone who deigns to walk by, and despite Loca&#8217;s vertical jumps that have left deep grooves in the solid mahogany window sills, and Bam Bam&#8217;s grey fur that has coated the one chair on the screen porch and the smell of the litter box that is incessantly cleaned by T but no matter, still continues to smell or Blekica&#8217;s profound need to dig her claws in the carpet and upholstery.<\/p>\n<p>I watched Tin maneuver through the zoo this morning, he got up and parted the dogs to walk through, kneeled down to meow at Blekica, pointed out Bam&#8217;s dish and then made his way to breakfast. Surely growing up around animals is meaningful to a child. And in the meantime, we pick up the hair, scoop out the litter box, and keep the spray bottle handy for the clawing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9196\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=9196\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a4.jpg?fit=450%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;uT8000,ST8000&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1284348857&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a4.jpg?fit=450%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9196\" title=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a4.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"a\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a4.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a4.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very fond of our zoo here at the LaLa despite the fact that Heidi the German Shedder has left a coating of dog fur from one end of the house to the other and barks at anyone who deigns to walk by, and despite Loca&#8217;s vertical jumps that have left deep grooves in the solid mahogany window sills, and Bam Bam&#8217;s grey fur that has coated the one chair on the screen porch and&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-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2og","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}