{"id":55,"date":"2012-02-23T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-02-23T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:32:00","slug":"and-down-to-one-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"And Down To One Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZEN8SnttYWA\/T0WzTvFWF5I\/AAAAAAAAN8M\/h106RAQiTZM\/s1600\/IMG_0560b.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZEN8SnttYWA\/T0WzTvFWF5I\/AAAAAAAAN8M\/h106RAQiTZM\/s400\/IMG_0560b.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Well you never can tell with fish.\u00a0 Yellow-whisker just didn&#8217;t seems as  healthy from the get go.\u00a0 The day before she died I was starting to  warn the kids she seemed ill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are now down to just Nia.\u00a0 Sure didn&#8217;t  take long for the first experience with a pets death to happen thanks  to our new fish adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The kids handled it well, although all differently.\u00a0 Youngest two  seem very unaware.\u00a0 My eldest is just hoping we get a new fish; maybe a  fancier one like a Beta next time.<\/p>\n<p>My oldest boy, however, was the one who found her&#8230;\u00a0 belly up&#8230; He looked so  ash colored as he came and told me.\u00a0 I took one\u00a0 look at her and  confirmed his suspicions.\u00a0 He then looked really solemn.\u00a0 I asked if he  was okay and he shook his head &#8216;no&#8217;.\u00a0 I said it was okay to be upset and  when he started to cry I grabbed him in a big hug.\u00a0 I assured him it is  always a hard lesson in life to learn&#8230; that life ends.<\/p>\n<p>After we  hugged for a while he asked if he could go be alone in his room.\u00a0 He  then asked the sweetest question, so honest, &#8220;Is it okay if I am not  okay for a while?\u00a0 I still feel sad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely okay my boy&#8221;, I  assured him.<\/p>\n<p>For now Nia is very healthy looking so we will stick with her and when  she goes we will debate trying ONE Beta or just two new goldfish again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-DOPqQVJTXuU\/T0W0tvDwKVI\/AAAAAAAAN8c\/meDSt3YcxfU\/s1600\/IMG_0338.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-DOPqQVJTXuU\/T0W0tvDwKVI\/AAAAAAAAN8c\/meDSt3YcxfU\/s320\/IMG_0338.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Well you never can tell with fish.\u00a0 Yellow-whisker just didn&#8217;t seems as healthy from the get go.\u00a0 The day before she died I was starting to warn the kids she seemed ill.\u00a0 We are now down to just Nia.\u00a0 Sure didn&#8217;t take long for the first experience with a pets death to happen thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,9,5,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}