{"id":229,"date":"2008-10-03T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:56:08","slug":"in-memoriam-paws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/in-memoriam-paws\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Paws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/wp-content\/images\/paws.jpg\" alt=\"Paws\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>If you have not heard, our eldest family dog passed away yesterday, October 2nd.\u00a0 Paws had been a furry friend by my side for nearly half my life.\u00a0 At 10 years old, he outlived our past family dogs, Spinks and Becks, by quite some time.\u00a0 Paws was very special to me.\u00a0 I still remember the day we went to the Norfolk SPCA and found this spunky little dog looking cute with one of his paws raised in the air.\u00a0 He was so happy to find a family that loved him.\u00a0 We later came to assume that he had been previously abused by a past owner since his raised paw actually contained a minorly broken toe.\u00a0 As many of our family members know, Paws quickly overcame his fear of humans.\u00a0 He was always ready to play with a tennis ball or towel in his mouth.\u00a0 Over the years, I always thought Paws aged rather gracefully.\u00a0 The gray patch on his chin grew in size, but his spirit never aged.\u00a0 It makes me sad that I have been stuck in Rochester these last few days, but it was better in the end that I missed seeing Paws grow weak.\u00a0 In my mind he will always be the best family dog that anyone could hope for.\u00a0 I just hope there is a couch in dog heaven that Paws can hid his tennis balls under.\u00a0 Goodbye, Paws, we'll miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not heard, our eldest family dog passed away yesterday, October 2nd.\u00a0 Paws had been a furry friend by my side for nearly half my life.\u00a0 At 10 years old, he outlived our past family dogs, Spinks and Becks, by quite some time.\u00a0 Paws was very special to me.\u00a0 I still remember the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-3H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}