{"id":1954,"date":"2009-02-22T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T03:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:12:29","slug":"the-last-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/02\/the-last-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"the last laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday morning was absolutely beautiful &#8211; bright blue sky, not a cloud to be seen and the temperature which started at a cold 18 had risen to 30 by 10:30.  I thought it was a perfect day for another try for a &#8220;Karl and Me&#8221; photo.  I didn&#8217;t have the tripod, but spotted a stump that held the camera&#8230;and another in a good spot for a focus point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl and Me &#8211; Take 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/SeriesA6401302.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"1302\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 1302px\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;mark&#8221; was about 20 feet from the camera.  As I ran for my spot, Karl started following thinking it was a game.  But then he stopped.  Not quite. Try again &#8211; I put Karl in a stay&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl and Me &#8211; Take 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/SeriesB6401450.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"1450\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 1450px\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, we are both here &#8211; look at the camera Karl!  No, I give you a kiss!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl and Me &#8211; Take 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/SeriesC6401270.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"1270\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 1270px\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This has to do &#8211; I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl&#8217;s reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/SeriesD6401150.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"1150\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 1150px\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think this is Karl&#8217;s version of ROFLMAO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday morning was absolutely beautiful &#8211; bright blue sky, not a cloud to be seen and the temperature which started at a cold 18 had risen to 30 by 10:30. I thought it was a perfect day for another try for a &#8220;Karl and Me&#8221; photo. I didn&#8217;t have the tripod, but spotted a stump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22341,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/22341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}