{"id":1233,"date":"2006-04-19T22:22:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/shadow\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:22:56","slug":"shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>January 12, 1994 &#8211; April 18, 2006<\/i><br \/>\nMy parents had their dog Shadow put to sleep last night.  He had cancer and had been rapidly declining over the past few weeks.  It took a long time to get used to visiting their house and not seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/archives\/000731.shtml\">Sylvan<\/a>&#8230;and now, just 14 months later, we have to get used to living without another wonderful dog in our lives.  I unintentionally named Shadow when my family brought him home.  Sylvan was a month younger and considerably smaller, and when Shadow started getting a little rough while they were playing I asked Sylvan if that big black Shadow was bothering him.  The name just sort of stuck.  I&#8217;m sure Shadow and Sylvan are running around playing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petloss.com\/poems\/maingrp\/rainbowb.htm\">rainbow bridge<\/a>, waiting for their people to join them.  It does help to think of them there, together again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 12, 1994 &#8211; April 18, 2006 My parents had their dog Shadow put to sleep last night. He had cancer and had been rapidly declining over the past few weeks. It took a long time to get used to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}