{"id":58,"date":"2008-05-24T18:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T22:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-07-23T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T13:35:01","slug":"honey-dawg-february-15-1994-may-23-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Honey-dawg, February 15, 1994 &#8211; May 23, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My little Honey-girl lost her battle with heart failure and was helped to the Bridge a little before midnight last night.  Before we left the house for our last ride together in the car, I watched in amazement as the cats tried to bring forth another <a href=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Honey'sHealing.html\" target=\"new\">miracle healing<\/a> of their canine friend.  But this time it wasn&#8217;t meant to be&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Her spirit was peacefully released from her exhausted, spent body at the emergency clinic where she was first taken in February 2003. As I told the wonderfully compassionate vet last night, while we never have enough time with our beloved companions, I&#8217;m grateful that Honey and I had &#8220;bonus&#8221; time together after the accident that nearly claimed her life five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you, Honey, for being a kind and tolerant member of a household run by cats, and for sharing your bed &#8212; and your life &#8212; with us all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Riley-HoneyFeb2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Honey-Kian-051903.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Honey-Cirrus-052403.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being my friend and constant companion &#8212; my &#8220;velcro dog&#8221; &#8212; for fourteen fast, fleeting years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Honey-062907.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve found your doggy-friend, Spotty, whose spirit also left this earth at the age of fourteen in August 2006, and I also hope you&#8217;ve found my Dad.  He loved you, too, you know.<\/p>\n<p>Run free, run strong and take delight in what you discover on this part of your journey.  But wait for me, Honeybear, and remember that you&#8217;ll always be my baby girl.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/HoneyBaby.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little Honey-girl lost her battle with heart failure and was helped to the Bridge a little before midnight last night. Before we left the house for our last ride together in the car, I watched in amazement as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=58\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}