{"id":15,"date":"2003-12-15T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2003-12-15T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T22:24:53","slug":"gravedigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/gravedigger\/","title":{"rendered":"gravedigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just dug a hole in my upper backyard. It&#8217;s about two feet deep. It&#8217;s for the cat. Cremation costs $180 for an individual and $105 for a communal. Very very odd, the pet cremation business. The man that I spoke with at the pet crematory was stereotypically unctuous. He consoled me for my loss and asked if I wanted an urn. I didn&#8217;t try to explain that I was feeling buoyant and relieved. I just said I was hoping to spend a lot less money and said goodbye. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of trash buried in my upper backyard. Rusty flattened cans and broken glassware. I pulled out one small bottle in perfect shape except for the rusted screw top. The inside was coated with the dregs of a white powder suspension. There are letters on the bottle, but I&#8217;ll let my son try to decipher them. <\/p>\n<p>As far as the cat, I am tremendously thankful to her little spirit for leaving us so swiftly and sweetly. And with beautiful timing, just before the solstice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just dug a hole in my upper backyard. It&#8217;s about two feet deep. It&#8217;s for the cat. Cremation costs $180 for an individual and $105 for a communal. Very very odd, the pet&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}