{"id":2638,"date":"2008-05-23T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/23\/rip-rd-20032008\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:07:56","slug":"rip-rd-20032008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/23\/rip-rd-20032008\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8220;RD,&#8221; 2003-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, my father retired from public school teaching, and decided to get a dog to keep him company. He purchased a yellow Labrador Retreiver puppy, who was dubbed &#8220;RD&#8221; for &#8220;Ron&#8217;s Dog.&#8221; He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2003_04_13_principlearchive.php#200163517\">started out small<\/a>, but quickly grew into a barrel-chested lunkhead, who panted like a freight train whenever he saw a person who might give him food or attention, which is to say any person at all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f858ec33d6449edbea818ccf2f28e803-RD2.jpg\" alt=\"i-f858ec33d6449edbea818ccf2f28e803-RD2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A week or so ago, he started acting a bit off, and wouldn&#8217;t eat. For this dog, that was a major crisis, so they took him to the vet. Yesterday, they found out that he was riddled with tumors, and they had to put him to sleep this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, my parents are devastated. We&#8217;re pretty broken up here at Chateau Steelypips, too. He was a terrific dog, one of the most lively and energetic dogs ever. I put the handful of pictures we have of him up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11070535@N08\/sets\/72157605199698424\/\">this Flickr set<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll add more if I come across them. The devastatingly cute puppy picture, I&#8217;ll put below the fold, because I tear up looking at it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a0133cd5a5aa1a97bc7cbcd9fcda06d4-sm_RDShoes.jpg\" alt=\"i-a0133cd5a5aa1a97bc7cbcd9fcda06d4-sm_RDShoes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things will be quiet here today. I&#8217;ve got classes to teach, and a couple of appointments, and then I need to take the Queen of Niskayuna for a really long walk or two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, my father retired from public school teaching, and decided to get a dog to keep him company. He purchased a yellow Labrador Retreiver puppy, who was dubbed &#8220;RD&#8221; for &#8220;Ron&#8217;s Dog.&#8221; He started out small, but quickly grew into a barrel-chested lunkhead, who panted like a freight train whenever he saw&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/23\/rip-rd-20032008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP &#8220;RD,&#8221; 2003-2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}