{"id":229,"date":"2010-07-16T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2010-07-16T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T03:59:12","slug":"tough-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/tough-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been tough going the past few days. I&#8217;ve been reviewing some Portora sections and, all the while, my dog Fubar has just not been right. I took her in and was told she had diabetes. Unfortunately my vet, whom I&#8217;ve been with for over 12 years, chose to try to panic me to action and, well, that was the wrong way to go about things. When I have questions, don&#8217;t just tell me &#8220;because.&#8221; So I took Fubar in for a second opinion and had the diagnosis confirmed. Our new vet explained everything without theatrics, so I green lighted the treatment. I&#8217;d already looked into insulin and the whole thing, and I&#8217;ve given her the first shot an hour ago.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say my editing\/reviewing progress has been slowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been tough going the past few days. I&#8217;ve been reviewing some Portora sections and, all the while, my dog Fubar has just not been right. I took her in and was told she had diabetes. Unfortunately my vet, whom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/tough-going\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}