{"id":981,"date":"2009-03-28T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=981"},"modified":"2009-03-29T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:26:59","slug":"farewell-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Nothing is as sad as loosing a best friend. A friend who always offered unconditional love and affection. Especially when that friend was also a family pet of 14 years\u00a0who truly became a part of the Kautz family.<\/p>\n<p>His name is Bingo. Mostly shih tzu , part maltese. He was rescued\u00a014 years ago when a tiny puppy by my wife\u00a0Gloria from certain extinction because he had a lame\u00a0right rear\u00a0leg. He never knew he was lame and it never held him back throughout his life. I have to admit he has always\u00a0been my inspiration to keep going\u00a0as my own mobility decreases.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what my son Steve wrote me in an email when\u00a0 he found out Bingo was gone:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><em>That&#8217;s so sad. He was a GREAT buddy. If we never would of adopted<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><em>(saved) him back when he was a puppy he&#8217;d of never had such a wonderful life. He sure gave us lots of happiness!! God bless our little &#8220;Bingi&#8221; <\/em><em>\ud83d\ude41<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><em>I&#8217;m so glad he got to meet Tessa.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tears are on the keyboard and there is a lump in my throat and an empty space in my heart. Time will heal all. His aura will remain and fill that empty space. That is the heaven where all good memories reside.<\/p>\n<p>Yes Steve, God Bless Bingo. He is in a wonderful place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is as sad as loosing a best friend. A friend who always offered unconditional love and affection. Especially when that friend was also a family pet of 14 years\u00a0who truly became a part of the Kautz family. His name is Bingo. Mostly shih tzu , part maltese. He was rescued\u00a014 years ago when a tiny puppy by my wife\u00a0Gloria from certain extinction because he had a lame\u00a0right rear\u00a0leg. He never knew he was lame&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[163,29],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-family","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}