{"id":20166,"date":"2013-06-10T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=20166"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:12:25","slug":"a-card-in-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-card-in-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"A Card In the Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a care package from my best friend today and she included a card received from <a href=\"www.oaksveterinaryclinic.com\">The Oaks Veterinary Clinic in Smithfield<\/a>, where I had taken Tabitha for a battery of tests at the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>They had put me on their e-mailing list, so I sent them a message letting them know Tabitha had died, that they hadn&#8217;t missed anything, and that I appreciated how well they had treated her.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more was heard from them until today. It looks like the ENTIRE staff signed the card! They all included a little message.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little dumbfounded since I only took Tabitha there once, but they did call to follow up about a week into her run on medication. My friend has been taking her dogs there for years.<\/p>\n<p>I know many of you are pet lovers, so I&#8217;ll share the printed message on the card. Warning: having tissues on hand. It is part of &#8220;The Once Again Prince&#8221; by Irving Townsend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We who choose to surround ourselves with lives<br \/>\neven more temporary than our own<br \/>\nlive within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unable to accept its awful gaps,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> we still would live no other way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We cherish memory as the only certain immortality,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> never fully understanding the necessary plan&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a care package from my best friend today and she included a card received from The Oaks Veterinary Clinic in Smithfield, where I had taken Tabitha for a battery of tests at the end of December. They had put me on their e-mailing list, so I sent them a message letting them know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,11,5,807,3],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-20166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-personal","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel","tag-cats-in-an-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}