{"id":282,"date":"2008-04-29T04:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=282"},"modified":"2017-09-13T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T04:33:13","slug":"lilith-1998-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Lilith, 1998-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I should let folks know, in case they had been following.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get more into it later.\u00c2\u00a0 Still shellshocked, myself.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I can tell you this much.\u00c2\u00a0 We asked the vets to come out to our place.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re accommodating that way, not to mention expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 I carried her to her favorite pillow in front of the fireplace.\u00c2\u00a0 I sat beside her.\u00c2\u00a0 Her head was resting on my knee.\u00c2\u00a0 I held her while they prepared the injections, one that would end the fear, another that would end&#8230;everything else.<\/p>\n<p>I said sorry.\u00c2\u00a0 I said goodbye.\u00c2\u00a0 Then she went away.<\/p>\n<p>You think you know how to cope when you&#8217;ve been through it before.\u00c2\u00a0 The shock.\u00c2\u00a0 The loss.\u00c2\u00a0 Feeling gravity fail under your feet.\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;s been hard.\u00c2\u00a0 So hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I should let folks know, in case they had been following.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get more into it later.\u00c2\u00a0 Still shellshocked, myself. For now, I can tell you this much.\u00c2\u00a0 We asked the vets to come out to our place.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re accommodating that way, not to mention expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 I carried her to her favorite pillow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,27],"tags":[84,35,43],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal-postings","category-offtopic","category-personal","tag-lilith","tag-livejournal","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}