{"id":12705,"date":"2013-04-20T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2013-04-21T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:14:16","slug":"into-every-life-a-little-rain-must-fall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/04\/into-every-life-a-little-rain-must-fall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Into every life a little rain must fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even here in Northwest Montana…far removed from the horror of Boston and Texas, the week was disconcerting at best. I do think that there are a few silver linings – small in comparison to the loss – and not comforting to those who suffered the ultimate loss, but I was a bit heartened to read that lessons learned in Afghanistan saved lives in Boston. I dearly hope that we hear of other positives and that we get some understanding – particularly for those whose lives were changed in an instant.<\/p>\n

Here at my home we had a little rain…a sprinkle compared to the downpour of tragedy elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Bob had a visit to the vet for an ear thing which turned out to be an ear infection and a broken blood vessel (hematoma) that caused his poor ear to look like one of the Star Wars critter ears (Yoda).<\/p>\n

We went to the vet on Thursday and all was lanced, flushed and medicated and we continue at home with some ointment twice a day.<\/p>\n

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It really did rain. <\/p>\n

It is supposed to snow tonight!<\/p>\n

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Bear continues well, but the Thursday trip to the vet and gray, rainy weather gave us all the sleepies.<\/p>\n

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Despite all, Bob looks to be feeling better and although the news and ramifications of this week’s events are still to come – we are concentrating on good things: ears and legs on the mend, love in our house, love for our neighbors, friends, family – and prayers for all who lost so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even here in Northwest Montana…far removed from the horror of Boston and Texas, the week was disconcerting at best. I do think that there are a few silver linings – small in comparison to the loss – and not comforting to those who suffered the ultimate loss, but I was a bit heartened to read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12724,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions\/12724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}