Today we got back the ashes of our labrador Sandy. I wasn’t convinced on doing this, but daughter wanted to, so I thought it might help. I don’t really know what to do with them. Or even how to refer to them – when the vet called me they said “Sandy has been returned to us” (which brought to mind Stephen King’s Pet Sematary), and I didn’t know what the right term was to use in reply “I’ll pick her\/it\/them up”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we got back the ashes of our labrador Sandy. I wasn’t convinced on doing this, but daughter wanted to, so I thought it might help. I don’t really know what to do with them. Or even how to refer to them – when the vet called me they said “Sandy has been returned to … Continue reading Ashes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}