{"id":20137,"date":"2025-11-21T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:44:39","slug":"silver-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2025\/11\/21\/silver-needle\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/silverneedle-890x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/silverneedle-890x1024.jpg 890w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/silverneedle-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/silverneedle-768x883.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/silverneedle.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It does feel awful to even admit to these thoughts, but every day I don&#8217;t leave the house because we&#8217;ve got it in our heads that the dog can&#8217;t be on his own. And when we go on vacation, we essentially have to leave behind a suitcase full of money so that someone will live here with Doug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you were expecting a fourth-panel twist where I talk about the joy and love the dog brings, er, well, I&#8217;m not quite there at the moment. And I appreciate that this makes me look like a horrible goblin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe my mind is using Doug as a symbol for my feelings of being overwhelmed by commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side, should the End Times come, I&#8217;ll be able to suture people&#8217;s wounds.<br><br>And if it counts for anything, I used my insomnia the other morning as an opportunity to sew a sling out of an old rice bag to help Doug get up onto our furniture (and me from nine years ago would be asking, &#8220;Why would you help him do that?!&#8221;). This is love, right?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dog-sling-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dog-sling-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dog-sling-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dog-sling-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dog-sling-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dog-sling.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does feel awful to even admit to these thoughts, but every day I don&#8217;t leave the house because we&#8217;ve got it in our heads that the dog can&#8217;t be on his own. And when we go on vacation, we essentially have to leave behind a suitcase full of money so that someone will live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20137","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\/20137","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=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}