{"id":20860,"date":"2021-11-28T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20860"},"modified":"2021-11-28T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:52:28","slug":"thanksgiving-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/11\/thanksgiving-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AuggieTD2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AuggieTD2020.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AuggieTD2020-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AuggieTD2020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AuggieTD2020-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AuggieTD2020-40x40.jpg 40w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I started the day with joyful and thankful remembrance of Auggie &#8230; photo is from last Thanksgiving.  Thoughts also of all times spent with Bear, Bob, Karl, Gus and Zack &#8230; they all came to mind and I enjoyed looking at photos of all of them and remembering their antics and the beautiful times we shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When a pet dies, that special place in our hearts feels so empty.  But we realize, as time passes, that animals have a way of teaching us about loving, about loyalty, friendship, and joy.<\/p><p>And whatever we&#8217;ve shared in their presence can never really be lost.<\/p><cite>Writer unknown<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>From Irving Townsend &#8230; these words have helped me when I&#8217;ve been in that place of &#8220;how\/when&#8221;&#8230;<\/p><p>Another cat? Perhaps.  For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown.  But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires.  Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated.  I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded, but not replaced one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, this Thanksgiving I remember all that I shared in the presence of Auggie, Bear, Bob, Karl, Gus and Zack &#8230; and also embrace a new season of Emmett and Oscar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TD1761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TD1761.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TD1761-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TD1761-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TD1761-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TD1761-55x40.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a lovely day together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started the day with joyful and thankful remembrance of Auggie &#8230; photo is from last Thanksgiving. Thoughts also of all times spent with Bear, Bob, Karl, Gus and Zack &#8230; they all came to mind and I enjoyed looking at photos of all of them and remembering their antics and the beautiful times we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20860","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\/20860","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=20860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20864,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860\/revisions\/20864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}