{"id":461,"date":"2013-07-07T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-07-07T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:04:17","slug":"so-long-serena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/07\/07\/so-long-serena\/","title":{"rendered":"So long Serena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, my cough and sore throat has gotten neither better nor worse.\u00a0 I\u2019ve completed my round of antibiotics, so now I\u2019m hoping that I don\u2019t catch something new or that something doesn\u2019t flares up.\u00a0 I\u2019m still tired.\u00a0 My daughter seems to have recovered.\u00a0 My son got worse, so he\u2019s been to the doctors twice and is now on antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>I have managed to make major progress towards completing my chip.\u00a0 I may only have three more hours to go, which is good because I\u2019m only seven hours away from maxing out on the PO.\u00a0 Beyond that, I\u2019ve also completed week 1 of all of my homework.\u00a0 It feels good to be caught up.\u00a0 I might even begin to work on one of my project\/presentations that is due in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, one of our bunnies, Serena, died.\u00a0 It was very sad for my daughter, as it was her bunny.\u00a0 Serena always had bowel issues and I guess she spent our entire vacation sitting on her butt in poop.\u00a0 Her butt became infested with maggots who were literally eating her alive.\u00a0 The vet gave her little chance for survival, so we put her down.\u00a0 Since our vacation was so short, we opted not to have a bunny sitter this time around.\u00a0 I guess we should have.\u00a0 The litter box was not cleaned for three weeks, giving time for maggots to grow.<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, both of my girls are away.\u00a0 My daughter is on a mission trip all week and my wife is at a three day teacher\u2019s conference.\u00a0 This leaves my son and me at home alone to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, my cough and sore throat has gotten neither better nor worse.\u00a0 I\u2019ve completed my round of antibiotics, so now I\u2019m hoping that I don\u2019t catch something new or that something doesn\u2019t flares up.\u00a0 I\u2019m still &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/07\/07\/so-long-serena\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}