{"id":736,"date":"2010-09-21T21:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2023-07-15T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T01:32:07","slug":"in-memorium-spooky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/in-memorium-spooky\/","title":{"rendered":"In memorium : Spooky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-737\" srcset=\"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/last-photo-of-spooky-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is with great sorrow that I announce the passing of Spooky, age 13, due to cancer. She was diagnosed with cancer 5 months ago, and the vet suggested that she had perhaps a month left to live. Always a cat of firm opinion, Spooky decided that it was not yet her time, and hung on as long as she could through sheer will power. This is a picture of her just a few weeks before her passing.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When I took her to the vet for her final trip, it was a glorious sunny day. There was a minor emergency at the clinic that forced us to wait, so she and I spent some time outside. She found the sunshine and new smells quite fascinating, and quite enjoyed the time. I was a blubbering mess. A couple hours later after I had returned home, the skies darkened and there was a tremendous lightning display with lots of thunder. My wife and I agreed that it was Spooky kicking ass in Heaven.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We got Spooky in 1998, and her age was estimated to be 1 year. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She will be sorely missed.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sorrow that I announce the passing of Spooky, age 13, due to cancer. She was diagnosed with cancer 5 months ago, and the vet suggested that she had perhaps a month left to live. Always a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/in-memorium-spooky\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}