{"id":1379,"date":"2009-07-14T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2009-07-15T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T21:31:05","slug":"life-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Life Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a nice weekend. \u00a0Kat and Josh came down to visit and brought Melo so the girls could get some puppy love. \u00a0They commiserated with us over the loss of Artie and we retold all of our crazy dog stories which was fun. \u00a0Kat went with me to pick up Artie&#8217;s ashes which was hard. \u00a0But he&#8217;s home now at last. \u00a0Then,the girls and I went over to Al&#8217;s and bought a little dogwood tree and some day lilies that we planted in the backyard. \u00a0We are going to make a little stone marker too and bury him there under the tree. \u00a0I think he&#8217;d like that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"A Place for Our Dog\" src=\"\/pictures\/2009\/artietree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week we are busy with zoo camp for the girls. \u00a0Leina is an old hand at it by now but this is the first summer that Kulia has been able to go. \u00a0 Because they are both so close in age, I was able to get them together in the same age group so Leina can show her little sister the ropes. \u00a0 Kulia was very quiet on the ride over to the zoo on Monday. \u00a0She spent the whole ride sucking her thumb and worrying Patches. \u00a0When I went to pick her up, however, she was bursting with energy and chatter and declared that it wasn&#8217;t scary at all! \u00a0Leina isn&#8217;t very happy about having her little sister tag along but this is the burden that all older sisters must bare. \u00a0I still remember trying to play 4-square on the school playground with Suzy holding onto my hand the entire time when we changed schools. \u00a0Us olders have such a cross to bear&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"My Little Penguins\" src=\"\/pictures\/2009\/girlszoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a nice weekend. \u00a0Kat and Josh came down to visit and brought Melo so the girls could get some puppy love. \u00a0They commiserated with us over the loss of Artie and we retold all of our crazy dog stories which was fun. \u00a0Kat went with me to pick up Artie&#8217;s ashes which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[16,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artie","category-kulia","category-leina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}