{"id":3363,"date":"2009-08-16T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2009-08-16T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:32:26","slug":"my-dog-ate-my-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"My Dog Ate My Remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Green Corn Moon<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 In previous episodes of the Vega\/Rigel saga our heroines have:\u00a0 escaped multiple times, eaten the recently installed netaphim, chewed up various hoses and their inside beds and, most famously, eaten my wedding ring.\u00a0 All that, but now they&#8217;ve done something serious:\u00a0 revealed the insides of the dvd player remote.\u00a0 Yike.\u00a0 Can you imagine manually inputting every command to your dvd player?\u00a0 I thought not.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s back and she&#8217;s glad to be back.\u00a0 It allowed a day to rest and today we&#8217;ve begun work on the meal for the Woollies.\u00a0 I dug potatoes and pulled beets and carrots (three colors&#8211;white, purple and orange)\u00a0 while Kate brined the two free-range chickens I bought yesterday at the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>While filling the dogs pool (yes, they have one in addition to the water container.), I squatted down to hold the hose, the shortened bit Vega has left me.\u00a0 Crack, snapple and pop.\u00a0 Not rice krispies.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 It was my lower back.\u00a0 Owee.<\/p>\n<p>Kate is a great resource on how to handle back pain so I have been her apprentice since then.\u00a0 She also gave me some pain meds that helped, too.\u00a0 I wanted to go out to the Marsh in Minnetonka to see the opening of Moon&#8217;s art show, but I can&#8217;t make it.\u00a0 Moon is Scott Simpson&#8217;s 92 year old Cantonese mother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>I do have to go to the grocery store for the stuff we decided we need for the meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Green Corn Moon OK.\u00a0 In previous episodes of the Vega\/Rigel saga our heroines have:\u00a0 escaped multiple times, eaten the recently installed netaphim, chewed up various hoses and their inside beds and, most famously, eaten my wedding ring.\u00a0 All that, but now they&#8217;ve done something serious:\u00a0 revealed the insides of the dvd player remote.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Dog Ate My Remote<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,127,10],"tags":[1776,621,665,111,1642,1652,1653],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-health","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-back","tag-beets","tag-carrots","tag-kate","tag-potatoes","tag-rigel","tag-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}