{"id":15043,"date":"2017-07-29T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2017\/07\/29\/dougs-first-birthday\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:33","slug":"dougs-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2017\/07\/29\/dougs-first-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug&#039;s First Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1557\/20170729123715-2017-07-29-0001-w500-h1000.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Doug birthday cartoon\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Plus, aside from all this &#8220;Me, me, me, what about my freedom?&#8221; blather, what about <em>Doug?<\/em> We&#8217;re his fourth home, and, despite his shenanigans, he&#8217;s clearly happy in his life with us. Sending him away again would be unthinkable. We don&#8217;t know the details, but I suspect this has been a long year for him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It brings me back, as all things ultimately do, to <em>Anne of Green Gables<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MARILLA: She&#8217;s no good for us. She has to go straight back where she came from.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW: Well, we might be of some good to her.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, aside from all this &#8220;Me, me, me, what about my freedom?&#8221; blather, what about Doug? We&#8217;re his fourth home, and, despite his shenanigans, he&#8217;s clearly happy in his life with us. Sending him away again would be unthinkable. We don&#8217;t know the details, but I suspect this has been a long year for him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}