{"id":3333,"date":"2009-12-18T22:28:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2009-12-27T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T16:52:50","slug":"rest-in-peace-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/skip_2.gif\" alt=\"Skipper, 1986-2009\" width=\"333\" height=\"317\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skipper, 1986-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Polly called this afternoon to report Skipper&#8217;s passing.\u00a0 We brought Skipper into our family in 1986, for no better reason than that we&#8217;d named our daughter Polly and getting her her own parrot seemed like the right thing to do.\u00a0\u00a0 Skipper lived with us in Florida, Okinawa, Hawaii, Nevada, and Arizona; a few years ago she moved with Polly to Phoenix and then Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper had a stroke earlier this year but had seemingly recovered.\u00a0 Polly said she wasn&#8217;t acting right when she left for work this morning; it must have been her time.<\/p>\n<p>All pets are beloved; we&#8217;ll miss our bad-tempered little bird.\u00a0 And as Polly said in her Facebook eulogy, &#8220;She will be greatly missed for a long time. Please, attack and then bite someone in her loving memory. It is what she would have done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Update (12\/27\/09):<\/em><\/span> Polly brought Skipper home and we buried her out back under a headstone Polly painted:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3353\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3353\" title=\"12-26-09_1a\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/12-26-09_1a.jpg\" alt=\"12-26-09_1a\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/12-26-09_1a.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/12-26-09_1a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skipper&#39;s grave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly called this afternoon to report Skipper&#8217;s passing.\u00a0 We brought Skipper into our family in 1986, for no better reason than that we&#8217;d named our daughter Polly and getting her her own parrot seemed like the right thing to do.\u00a0\u00a0 Skipper lived with us in Florida, Okinawa, Hawaii, Nevada, and Arizona; a few years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}