{"id":138,"date":"2006-05-31T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-04-08T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:18:07","slug":"on-the-phone-with-my-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/on-the-phone-with-my-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"on the phone with my sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;G&#8217;s pony died.&#8221;  It&#8217;s my sister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no.  She ok?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah.  She is.  But I&#8217;m not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry &#8217;bout that.  What happened to it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not the pony.  Our dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, <em>our dogs<\/em>.   Yours and mine.  When we were little.  I was telling mom this morning about the pony and how glad I am that <em>husband<\/em> took care of it before the girls got up. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yup&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cause I would hate for them to see something like that.  The trauma and all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I say to mom &#8216;you know, it really bothered me when Dad put the dog down that time&#8217;&#8230;..&#8221; She lowers her voice and I know exactly what she&#8217;s gonna say.  &#8220;&#8230;. <em>in front of us<\/em>.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Poor Guts&#8221;  I shake my head and picture the sweet little herniated stray my sister and I picked up when we were kids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exactly!  And you know what she says?&#8221;  She pauses.  For effect.  The way she does when she&#8217;s got a doozie.  &#8220;She says &#8216;your daddy <em>had<\/em> to shoot Pup, he was really sick&#8217; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and I&#8217;m like &#8230;&#8230;.<strong>HE KILLED PUP<\/strong>!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holy crap. &#8220;He killed Pup too!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m saying!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pup didn&#8217;t run away?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seriously.  I mean, good grief.  No wonder we have issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She sighs.  I agree.  Then we start talking about pilates and core flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Sisters are the best therapy.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;G&#8217;s pony died.&#8221; It&#8217;s my sister. &#8220;Oh no. She ok?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah. She is. But I&#8217;m not.&#8221; &#8220;Sorry &#8217;bout that. What happened to it?&#8221; &#8220;Not the pony. Our dogs.&#8221; &#8220;Huh?&#8221; &#8220;You know, our dogs. Yours and mine. When we were little. I was telling mom this morning about the pony and how glad I am that<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}