{"id":751,"date":"2008-12-30T18:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2008-12-30T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:30:46","slug":"the-heartbreak-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"The heartbreak before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got back from our New Mexico Christmas vacation last night to a house that had less to come back to. Our beloved Black Lab, Cowboy, died on December 23rd. At eleven, he was old for a dog of his size (over 100 lbs). <\/p>\n

He had an intimidating physical presence but that was quickly overlooked because of his gentle demeanor, even if somewhat excitable when meeting someone new. He was a dog who loved people, especially kids. This is how we will always remember him:
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Bailey hugging Cowboy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I remember having friends over to play games at our table and he would be always find a way to get under it. It was his favorite place to be, surrounded by people. <\/p>\n

Bailey loved to climb on him and lead him around by his collar, well, as much as a 20 lb. girl could lead a 100 lb. dog. She also liked to hold his food dish while he ate. <\/p>\n

We miss him terribly. As Bailey said so often, “Good boy, Cowboy.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got back from our New Mexico Christmas vacation last night to a house that had less to come back to. Our beloved Black Lab, Cowboy, died on December 23rd. At eleven, he was old for a dog of his size (over 100 lbs). He had an intimidating physical presence but that was quickly overlooked … Continue reading “The heartbreak before Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life","tag-cowboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}