{"id":114,"date":"2005-10-07T19:46:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T00:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/blog.php\/?p=114"},"modified":"2005-10-07T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T00:46:28","slug":"ben-the-lonely-geek-and-ubu-the-sick-feline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/114\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben the Lonely Geek and Ubu the Sick Feline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill just left for a leadership retreat thingy with Young Life folks.  I stayed home, and right now I&#8217;m working on a script to manage our finances!  It&#8217;s really fun, and I think it will be an improvement on our other program when I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Ubu&#8217;s kind of sick.  We&#8217;re not sure what&#8217;s going to happen &#8211; but personally I can&#8217;t stand paying vet bills for animals.  If the value to keep an animal alive exceeds the cost of a new pet, then &#8212;&#8212;.  Some people spend thousands of dollars to keep pets alive.  There are even pet hospitals that cost about $300 a night just to stay there.  Well, I just refuse.  I think that&#8217;s silly.  I understand that people develop attachments to pets, but there comes a point you just have to let go and kill it or let nature run its course.  My threshold for that decision just comes a little sooner than a lot of people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill just left for a leadership retreat thingy with Young Life folks. I stayed home, and right now I&#8217;m working on a script to manage our finances! It&#8217;s really fun, and I think it will be an improvement on our other program when I&#8217;m done. Also, Ubu&#8217;s kind of sick. We&#8217;re not sure what&#8217;s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}