{"id":1268,"date":"2026-04-30T05:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/chuck-wendigs-dog-lao\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:27:16","slug":"chuck-wendigs-dog-lao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/chuck-wendigs-dog-lao\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Wendig\u2019s dog, Lao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coming off the heels of the passing of our own Abby, <a href=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2026\/04\/29\/loa-2012-2026\/\">Chuck\u2019s eulogy of his baby, Lao<\/a>, hits hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck opines that the true cost of pet ownership includes the inevitable loss. Beautiful words if you\u2019ve got the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, fuck cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another good doggy is gone. Just a link to Chuck Wendig\u2019s post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Chuck Wendig\u2019s dog, Lao","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[273],"tags":[677,679,678],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fur-baby","tag-lao","tag-loss","tag-pet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}