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<\/p>\nI’m sitting on the couch reading when Emmy trots in looking excited.<\/p>\n
“Hey, dude, I’ve got a great idea!” she says cheerily. “You know how your puppy is away for the week?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah.”<\/p>\n
“Well, I think this is the perfect opportunity to class up your blog a little. I mean, you always post pictures of her on Thursdays, but she’s not here to take a picture of, so…”<\/p>\n
“So… What?”<\/p>\n
“Well, you should post some pictures of me, silly!”<\/p>\n
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“Yeah,” she says. “Just like that. I’m an excellent<\/em> dog!”<\/p>\n “Yes, you’re the best. The Queen of Niskayuna.” She flops over, and I rub her belly. She’s quiet for a minute, then sits up, looking concerned:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “What’s the matter, girl?”<\/p>\n “I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but….” she sighs heavily. “I kind of miss the puppy.”<\/p>\n “Yeah, we do, too. But she’shaving a great time with Grandma and Grandpa, and we’re going to pick her up this weekend.”<\/p>\n “It’s just… You know, the place is too quiet with her gone. I mean, I like it that she’s not here to mess with my Kong, or try to pull my tail, but…”<\/p>\n “Yeah, I know.”<\/p>\n “Also, you guys don’t drop nearly enough food on the floor.”<\/p>\n “It always comes back to food, doesn’t it?”<\/p>\n “Dude, I’m a dog<\/em>.”<\/p>\n “Good point.”<\/p>\n “Anyway, since, you know, we both kind of miss her, and she’s got fans on your blog…”<\/p>\n “You want me to put up a picture of her?”<\/p>\n “Maybe just one, ok?”<\/p>\n “OK.”<\/p>\n (This is SteelyKid vigorously waving around the balloon-animal Tigger we got her at the mall last weekend, from one of those guys who ties balloons into the shapes of animals. Honestly, it’s the craziest thing I ever saw.*)<\/p>\n “Is that better?”<\/p>\n “Yeah, much.” She wags her tail, then moves over to her toys. “Now, I can chew in peace.”<\/p>\n “And, dude? Don’t even think of trying to take my Kong.”<\/p>\n (*- +5 points for the reference.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sitting on the couch reading when Emmy trots in looking excited. “Hey, dude, I’ve got a great idea!” she says cheerily. “You know how your puppy is away for the week?” “Yeah.” “Well, I think this is the perfect opportunity to class up your blog a little. I mean, you always post pictures of… Continue reading Thursday Royalty Blogging 042111<\/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":[20,2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526","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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"i-12d23ecf841f0c6a40916f17a6691037-sm_concerned_emmy.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-12d23ecf841f0c6a40916f17a6691037-sm_concerned_emmy.jpg\")
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