{"id":562,"date":"2004-07-27T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=562"},"modified":"2004-07-27T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T12:12:00","slug":"poor-little-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-07\/562-poor-little-guy","title":{"rendered":"Poor Little Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The floor refinishing people are supposed to come in the morning to start work on the living room.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been to Xoozland, you may remember that <b>vomitous<\/b> brown-beige wall-to-wall carpet. It&#8217;s almost all gone now, and will be before I go to sleep tonight!<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m worried for my little feathered friend <b>Orson<\/b>. I wanted to get him out of the house while the work is being done. Budgies have tender respiratory systems, and I didn&#8217;t want him exposed to the possibly dangerous fumes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Unfortunately<\/b>, when I tried to prepare him for the 45-minute drive across town, he got extremely upset and flustered. He squawked loudly for the entire minute I had a blanket wrapped around his cage; I didn&#8217;t even get a chance to move his cage to the car! He&#8217;s getting on in years now, so I decided it would be better for him to stay in the house than to face the stress of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to do something to minimize his risk of exposure to the fumes, and I&#8217;ll try to spend as much time as I can with him while the work is being done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floor refinishing people are supposed to come in the morning to start work on the living room. If you&#8217;ve ever been to Xoozland, you may remember that vomitous brown-beige wall-to-wall carpet. It&#8217;s almost all gone now, and will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-07\/562-poor-little-guy\">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-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}