{"id":3211,"date":"2010-06-30T16:57:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2010-06-30T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:59:20","slug":"remembering-saul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/remembering-saul","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Saul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[flv:\/rainbow-bridge\/saul\/saul.flv 400 300]<\/p>\n<p>Saul passed away in February, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a little sticky-note on the corner of my monitor for weeks now as a reminder that it was time to say my final goodbye.  Each time I started to write this post, I got about this far before stopping and putting it off for &#8220;just a few more days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Watching our fur kids grow old is hard, but I suppose if love actually comes with a cost, then this is it.  Even so, I would still do it all over again, and I probably will.<\/p>\n<p>There is bittersweet comfort in knowing that not every turn in the road is hidden.  That&#8217;s what makes a sunset feel soft and purple, and starlight sing, and the wind taste like apple wine.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a class=\"linkgold\" href=\"\/rainbow-bridge\/saul\">Remembering Saul &#8211; Gallery of a collie-dog<\/a><!-- [gallery] --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[flv:\/rainbow-bridge\/saul\/saul.flv 400 300] Saul passed away in February, 2010. I&#8217;ve had a little sticky-note on the corner of my monitor for weeks now as a reminder that it was time to say my final goodbye. Each time I started to write this post, I got about this far before stopping and putting it off for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}