{"id":4598,"date":"2009-02-19T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T08:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/19\/goodbye-toby-the-dog\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T08:07:01","slug":"goodbye-toby-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/goodbye-toby-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Toby (the dog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I asked our vet this morning whether she thought our pets somehow understood that we thought we were doing them a kindness when we brought them into the vet to be euthanized. I thought it was mostly a rhetorical question at the time, a way of stalling, a way to avoid crying, which I hadn&#8217;t thought I was going to do but did anyway, and a way, maybe, to beg for absolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/02\/goodbye-toby\/\"><br \/>\n&#8230; at Quiche Moraine, guest post by Heather Rosa. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked our vet this morning whether she thought our pets somehow understood that we thought we were doing them a kindness when we brought them into the vet to be euthanized. I thought it was mostly a rhetorical question at the time, a way of stalling, a way to avoid crying, which I hadn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/goodbye-toby-the-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye Toby (the dog)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ca","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}