{"id":482,"date":"2003-08-23T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=482"},"modified":"2003-08-23T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-23T10:17:00","slug":"r-i-p-ridley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-08\/482-r-i-p-ridley","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ridley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with an extremely heavy heart and much sadness that I report the death of my dear friend <b>Ridley (Scott) Budgie<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I held Ridley in my hand and comforted him as he died peacefully this morning at 8:20 a.m. He had been in declining health for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Ridley had been with me for nine and a half years, and enjoyed an long and happy life.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his buddy Orson (Welles) Budgie, and will be sadly missed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rest In Peace, Dear One!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with an extremely heavy heart and much sadness that I report the death of my dear friend Ridley (Scott) Budgie. I held Ridley in my hand and comforted him as he died peacefully this morning at 8:20 a.m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-08\/482-r-i-p-ridley\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}