{"id":842,"date":"2024-01-30T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=842"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:34:00","slug":"arlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Arlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jick.net\/~jess\/pix\/Arlo-Galiano.jpg\" alt=\"Arlo on Galiano Island\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here lived Arlo, a good dog and true.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sorry I sometimes yelled at you.<br \/>\nI wish I had hugged you and flopped your ears<br \/>\nmore often before today\u2019s sad tears.<\/p>\n<p>Barking at neighbors on the street,<br \/>\nyou yelped and fell near to my feet.<br \/>\nYou shook and twitched, I came to you,<br \/>\nbut there was nothing I could do.<\/p>\n<p>The vet said probably heart attack.<br \/>\nI just wish I could get you back<br \/>\nto chase the rabbits and catch the ball<br \/>\nthat now sits lonely upon the wall.<\/p>\n<p>We ran together the river trail.<br \/>\nI would plod while you would sail.<br \/>\nYour grace was ever my inspiration<br \/>\nAnd I wish I could match your dedication.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>15 June 2022<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here lived Arlo, a good dog and true. I\u2019m sorry I sometimes yelled at you. I wish I had hugged you and flopped your ears more often before today\u2019s sad tears. Barking at neighbors on the street, you yelped and fell near to my feet. You shook and twitched,<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=842\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-occasional","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}