{"id":1113,"date":"2012-08-27T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2012-08-27T06:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T10:30:53","slug":"farewell-dear-pokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/farewell-dear-pokey\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, dear Pokey&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1114\" title=\"obit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obit-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Our little <em>Pokey<\/em> died a week ago during a procedure to have her spayed.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not sure but apparently the cause of death was an aneurysm.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, it was an unexpected and devastating loss.\u00a0 In the few short months she was with us, she took over our home and our lives.\u00a0 She was still learning how to handle the cows but she knew what to do instinctively and never backed down.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll always be in our hearts, riding along in the Gator, joyfully greeting each new adventure.<\/p>\n<p>We were warned that English Shepherds don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re dogs.\u00a0 We pray that means that there&#8217;s a special place for <em>Pokey<\/em> in Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little Pokey died a week ago during a procedure to have her spayed.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not sure but apparently the cause of death was an aneurysm. Whatever, it was an unexpected and devastating loss.\u00a0 In the few short months she was with us, she took over our home and our lives.\u00a0 She was still learning how to handle the cows but she knew what to do instinctively and never backed down. She&#8217;ll always be in our hearts, riding along in the Gator, joyfully greeting each new adventure. We were warned that English Shepherds don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re dogs.\u00a0 We pray that means that there&#8217;s a special place for Pokey in Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pocahontas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}