{"id":1484,"date":"2003-09-07T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2009-05-24T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T20:40:31","slug":"my-man-sirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1484","title":{"rendered":"My Man Sirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, I wake up feeling strong, young, bright, Outrageously Unstoppable!<\/p>\n<p>Then there are days when I&#8217;m flat as a pancake.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I felt like the uncooked pancake batter that dribbled off the edge of the grill. I was going to listen to some Tori Amos and Tom Waits, but they both seemed a little too cheerful. I had scotch for dinner. It&#8217;s not like me, but I was Depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Until that special man came into my life. Sirus. He changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s sweet. He&#8217;s loving. He&#8217;s teething. And he has no bowel control whatsoever. He&#8217;s Alastair and Lachlan&#8217;s newly arrived 9-week old yellow lab. He fell asleep on me today for about half an hour after dinner and an exhausting session of &#8216;pet me while I chew you&#8217;. I am in love. Allow me to spread the joy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pipesdreams.diaryland.com\/images\/sirus1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pipesdreams.diaryland.com\/images\/sirus2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pipesdreams.diaryland.com\/images\/sirus3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pipesdreams.diaryland.com\/images\/sirus4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Puppy = joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, I wake up feeling strong, young, bright, Outrageously Unstoppable! Then there are days when I&#8217;m flat as a pancake. Today, I felt like the uncooked pancake batter that dribbled off the edge of the grill. I was going to listen to some Tori Amos and Tom Waits, but they both seemed a little <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1484\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,755,662,760,761,758,644,754,759,756,757,95],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wishful-thinking","tag-alastair","tag-batter","tag-depressed","tag-dog","tag-joy","tag-lachlan","tag-love","tag-pancakes","tag-puppy","tag-scotch","tag-sirus","tag-tori-amos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}