{"id":15058,"date":"2017-05-06T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2017\/05\/06\/waiting-and-waiting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:34","slug":"waiting-and-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2017\/05\/06\/waiting-and-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting and Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a book for Strategic Coach, so that&#8217;s taking up a lot of my time and energy &#8212; though in a welcome way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Good news on the home-front, though: Craig passed his Speech and Language exam! He&#8217;s sent away his application to become a member of SAC, the national association of speech and language pathologists and audiologists. It&#8217;s such a wonderful turn of events, given how bleak things were for him in Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also been going to the Humane Society to look at dogs. We didn&#8217;t get the first dog we did a meet-and-greet with, Sasha, who was a lovely, placid girl. Shortly after, though, the Society called us in to meet Doug, a nine-month-old, very smart, very energetic wee fella. It&#8217;s scary to think of how much he would turn our lives upside-down, but now it&#8217;s hard to <em>un<\/em>-imagine it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1572\/20170506115003-2017-05-04-1-w800-h1200.jpg.webp\" alt=\"comic: taking on responsibilities\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1572\/20170506114846-2017-05-04-2-w800-h1200.jpg.webp\" alt=\"comic: doing things for other people's reasons\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1572\/20170506114920-2017-05-05-0002-w800-h1200.jpg.webp\" alt=\"comic: we keep having to wait for stuff\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a book for Strategic Coach, so that&#8217;s taking up a lot of my time and energy &#8212; though in a welcome way. Good news on the home-front, though: Craig passed his Speech and Language exam! He&#8217;s sent away his application to become a member of SAC, the national association of speech [&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-15058","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\/15058","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=15058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}