{"id":4440,"date":"2022-04-03T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T10:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2022-04-05T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:19:06","slug":"the-king-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4440","title":{"rendered":"The King Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came home this morning (just about this morning) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2282\">QT<\/a> apparently snoozing on a chair: the friend I was with peeked under the blind before continuing home and remarked on him comfortably asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Except he wasn&#8217;t. I didn&#8217;t notice until he didn&#8217;t move for Dreamies.<\/p>\n<p>As the same friend said: &#8220;He lived like a king&#8221;, which is pretty accurate: in comfort, waited upon, and indulged. It&#8217;s never easy saying goodbye to a loved pet, but it&#8217;s an inescapable fact that we will have to, and it&#8217;s the price we pay for their companionship, and all we can wish for is that we gave them a good life, which I&#8217;m certain we did.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep well, lad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4441\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/IMG_20171203_144934126_HDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QT McWhiskers: 28 Aug 2009 &#8211; 3 April 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came home this morning (just about this morning) to QT apparently snoozing on a chair: the friend I was with peeked under the blind before continuing home and remarked on him comfortably asleep. Except he wasn&#8217;t. I didn&#8217;t notice until he didn&#8217;t move for Dreamies. As the same friend said: &#8220;He lived like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The King Is Dead<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}