{"id":9038,"date":"2015-10-15T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2025-02-08T23:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T05:49:41","slug":"bye-cleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2015\/10\/15\/bye-cleo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye, Cleo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour a little out tonight for Cleopatra Sehr, the first dog I knew. I was in my 20s, and at first Cleo wasn\u2019t so sure about me. I wasn\u2019t sure about her, either, I didn\u2019t know anything about dogs. I\u2019d met them before, of course. This is a dog. This is <em>our <\/em>dog. This is Dog\u2019s Name. But I\u2019d never spent any time with them, observed them or interacted beyond a pat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I confided to Gabe that I didn\u2019t understand pets. I grew up with itty things in cages. No cats, no dogs, no ponies. <a><\/a>\u201cI don\u2019t think I could take care of a dog.\u201d I meant budget for it. Dollars for kibble, time for walks, all the little showing up when something depends on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabe is taken aback. \u201cI don\u2019t take care of her! She takes care of ME!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time I took it for clever, but after getting to know her and especially after Robin and Mudcat, I know now how true it is \u2014 for Gabe, for Arthur and me, for everyone who lets a pet into their lives. They comfort and challenge our bad moods, zen-now-mystic pull us into their moment and remind us what\u2019s important, elemental, authentic. Smells and romps and toothy grins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you, Cleo, for being such a good friend \u2014 for taking care of Gabe, and for teaching so many humans so many things. We love you and we\u2019ll miss you so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cleosehr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cleosehr.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cleosehr-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love you and we\u2019ll miss you so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}