{"id":21,"date":"2005-01-26T13:39:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-04-30T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T03:46:20","slug":"to-sir-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"To Sir With Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=474 ,height=676     ,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/images\/\/momandsir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mom and Sir\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" alt=\"Mom and Sir\" src=\"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/images\/\/momandsirtn.jpg\"  align=\"left\" border=\"1\"  hspace=\"10\" \/> <\/a>    Last summer, I spent a week at &#8216;La Maison du Patchwork&#8217; in Chateauponsac, France.  My mother and I had a wonderful time, good people, good food, good conversation.  A special member of our group was our hosts&#8217; English bulldog, Sir.  Sir was wonderfully friendly and enthusiastic.  He would leap with gusto at every opportunity to join us; and he&#8217;d shiver with delight when he succeeded at becoming the center of our loving attention.  It was always such a pleasure to see him smile.   <\/p>\n<p>But Sir was fragile.  He suffered from epilepsy.  Though we did our best not to, there were occasions when our attentions caused enough stress to trigger a seizure.  It was difficult for all of us to witness that struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Today I received sad news that Sir has died.  We send our sympathies to Graham and Isabel Sunderland.  Sir will always have a special place in our hearts.    <br clear=\"left\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I spent a week at &#8216;La Maison du Patchwork&#8217; in Chateauponsac, France. My mother and I had a wonderful time, good people, good food, good conversation. A special member of our group was our hosts&#8217; English bulldog, Sir. Sir was wonderfully friendly and enthusiastic. He would leap with gusto at every opportunity to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-whos-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxwillow.com\/foxlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}