{"id":692,"date":"2011-01-18T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:37:11","slug":"and-the-crayfish-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/and-the-crayfish-died\/","title":{"rendered":"And the crayfish died&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There he was.\u00a0 Belly up in the bowl; with\u00a0a smidgen of his new claw just forming. \u00a0 Just as dead as dead could be.\u00a0 So much for the shrimp pellets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dreading the news I would have to share with my daughter- who was certain, Yoshi aka Bob the crayfish, was sure to live forever, we made a few stops on the way home from school.<\/p>\n<p>And then:<\/p>\n<p>Ava, I have some bad news to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, mom, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>Yoshi is dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is\u00a0Swimmy dead too?<\/p>\n<p>Swimmy is the blue Beta fish who has been with us for two years now. He was in his own bowl, complete with a faux rock castle.<\/p>\n<p>No, Swimmy is fine.\u00a0 Swimmy is alive and swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And with a shrug of the shoulders, that was that.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story?\u00a0 There are more things I should shrug my shoulders at and get on with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/and-the-crayfish-died\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/and-the-crayfish-died\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There he was.\u00a0 Belly up in the bowl; with\u00a0a smidgen of his new claw just forming. \u00a0 Just as dead as dead could be.\u00a0 So much for the shrimp pellets.\u00a0 Dreading the news I would have to share with my daughter- who was certain, Yoshi aka Bob the crayfish, was sure to live forever, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}