{"id":1489,"date":"2013-03-06T23:21:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2013-03-06T23:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:24:52","slug":"spring-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/spring-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is coming&#8230;and thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have absolute proof that spring is coming, despite the snow currently fluffing through the air:\u00a0 at Monday morning&#8217;s storytime, several of my regular attendees &#8211; kids who are always attentive &#8211; were practically bouncing off the walls.\u00a0 Some of these usually docile children even had to be taken out the story room by their grownups.\u00a0 Spring is definitely coming.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you to all of you who left such sweet comments about my last post on the loss of our dear Ophy.\u00a0 I appreciate your love and support.\u00a0 I&#8217;m slowly getting used to the idea that Ophy isn&#8217;t around anymore, and I keep reminding myself that she was terribly sick and ready to move on.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had to make that decision before, and now I fully appreciate what our wonderful vet told me: while putting a beloved pet to sleep is\u00a0very difficult, it is also one&#8217;s obligation as a caring pet owner to make that decision when the time comes.\u00a0 And hopefully Ophy is cavorting in the great beyond with her best feline pal, Rudy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have absolute proof that spring is coming, despite the snow currently fluffing through the air:\u00a0 at Monday morning&#8217;s storytime, several of my regular attendees &#8211; kids who are always attentive &#8211; were practically bouncing off the walls.\u00a0 Some of these usually docile children even had to be taken out the story room by their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/spring-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring is coming&#8230;and thanks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-dogs-plants-animals","category-storytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}