{"id":3901,"date":"2011-10-28T18:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2011-10-28T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:24:36","slug":"sometimes-people-dont-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3901","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes people don&#8217;t suck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten very cynical about people &#8212; working with the general public will do that to you &#8212; but sometimes people don&#8217;t suck.<\/p>\n<p>Witness the gift a client brought me on Wednesday evening.  It was at the end of my day, I was cranky and tired, and I really wanted to be home where it was quiet and the bloody phone doesn&#8217;t ring every thirty seconds.<\/p>\n<p>I euthanized the client&#8217;s dog in July.  Part of my act, for a lot of the time it is acting, when I&#8217;m injecting the euthanasia solution is to tell the dog that there are plenty of bunnies to chase on the other side.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pleased to know that that statement, something that I&#8217;d just developed as a habit in the hopes that it would bring some comfort to the occasional client, actually brought comfort to someone.  Maybe more people than I think?<\/p>\n<p>The painting is of Miller, the wee brown dog in the bottom center, and one of Miller&#8217;s predecessors watching the bunnies on the other side.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/karendrumhellerpainting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/karendrumhellerpainting.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"miller&amp;maggie with bunnies\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3903\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/karendrumhellerpainting.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/karendrumhellerpainting-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went home happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten very cynical about people &#8212; working with the general public will do that to you &#8212; but sometimes people don&#8217;t suck. Witness the gift a client brought me on Wednesday evening. It was at the end of my day, I was cranky and tired, and I really wanted to be home where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}