{"id":250,"date":"2020-01-20T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2020-01-20T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:00:08","slug":"my-exclamation-point-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"My exclamation point is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi.  It&#8217;s me, Marigold.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been happy to post here when Winston would let me.  Excited even.  I know I overdid the exclamation points when I posted. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, this is now my blog.  And I&#8217;m so sad about it.  Forty days ago, my buddy Winston crossed the bridge.  I haven&#8217;t been able to say anything about it until now.  He got very sick on a Monday, spent a week at the vet and came home for a day and a half to say goodbye before Mom and Dad took him back to the vet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told me before he left he was happy and looking forward to seeing his Clemmie.  He was the best big brother a Basset could ask for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been pretty lonely here.  And Mom and Dad kept crying and talking about him with me.  But last weekend, we all got in the car and they didn&#8217;t even drop me off where I play with all my friends.  We drove a long time, then they stopped at Hank&#8217;s house, and they left me there.  I was really confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they came back, they had a nice older Basset girl named Bailey in the car.  And we all rode home together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bailey&#8217;s pretty nice and fun.  I&#8217;ll introduce her later.  Mostly, I&#8217;ve been telling her about Winston this week.  She has pretty big shoes to fill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. It&#8217;s me, Marigold. I&#8217;ve always been happy to post here when Winston would let me. Excited even. I know I overdid the exclamation points when I posted. Sorry about that. Today, this is now my blog. And I&#8217;m so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/?p=250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[224,17,16,14,15],"tags":[225,212,7,6,111,34,226,62],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Ba4u-42","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northshtories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}