{"id":5851,"date":"2023-01-25T06:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T20:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:01:19","slug":"good-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/2023\/01\/good-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday,<br \/>we let them go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because<br \/>we were ready,<br \/>but because<br \/>their old bodies<br \/>were tired,<br \/>and love had become<br \/>letting go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ebony,<br \/>our little street fighter<br \/>with the softest ears \u2013<br \/>all sweetness<br \/>and trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spook,<br \/>pointy-eared,<br \/>playful,<br \/>and devoted to her Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two very different hearts,<br \/>woven into<br \/>the shape of our days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the house is quieter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But behind the sadness<br \/>are all those years<br \/>they were ours \u2013<br \/>loved,<br \/>and loving us,<br \/>right to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-dark-grayscale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20220823_002754798-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spook and Ebony had shared so many years with us that saying goodbye to them was heartbreaking. In the end, letting them go together was the last kindness we could give them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}