{"id":165,"date":"2008-07-13T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.wordpress.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-07-13T22:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T03:24:34","slug":"rip-plecostomus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/rip-plecostomus\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Plecostomus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_3015blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[165]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_3015blog.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We woke up to a death in the family on Sunday. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plecostomus\">plecostomus<\/a> was lying motionless on the bottom of the tank. I don&#8217;t know how long he was dead, because I don&#8217;t remember noticing him moving for the last few days. Gina said she saw him alive Friday night. Abby was less than devastated. She said, &#8220;It&#8217;s gross!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The garage is turning out to be a pretty good photo studio. It&#8217;s nice for Abby because the mosquitoes aren&#8217;t as bad in there as they are in the back yard. I gave Abby the white-background treatment like I did <a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/12\/shampoo-ad\/\">Gina the night before<\/a>. (See those on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89266585@N00\/\">Flickr<\/a>.) Then we put the bubble grill in there and Abby went crazy rubbing the bubble elixir all over her arms and legs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_0484blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[165]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_0484blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"676\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_0423blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[165]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_0423blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up to a death in the family on Sunday. Our plecostomus was lying motionless on the bottom of the tank. I don&#8217;t know how long he was dead, because I don&#8217;t remember noticing him moving for the last few days. Gina said she saw him alive Friday night. Abby was less than devastated. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,21,36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abby","category-adventures-in-strobistry","category-family-fun","category-pets","category-photography","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}