{"id":1259,"date":"2011-10-21T08:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2011-10-21T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:03:27","slug":"distracting-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2011\/10\/21\/distracting-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracting Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gus was taking a nap in the (freshly cleaned) litter box last night, so I took a turn at being the &#8220;guard bunny.&#8221; But then dad showed up with his camera.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"gus napping, betsy guarding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/6265813225\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6053\/6265813225_3ea64f7e3c.jpg\" alt=\"gus napping, betsy guarding\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Gus was asleep and I didn&#8217;t want dad to wake him up, so I selflessly took it upon myself to distract him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"betsy begging 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/6265813377\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6227\/6265813377_e807426e4e.jpg\" alt=\"betsy begging 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>&#8230;By begging for treats.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"betsy begging 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/6265813533\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6226\/6265813533_2f8c3257c3.jpg\" alt=\"betsy begging 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>Hi dad, got any treats for me? (I am very lady-like with my begging; do you see how I gracefully cross my paws when I stand up on my hind legs?)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"gus sleeps through it all\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/6265813683\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6227\/6265813683_d84106b0fe.jpg\" alt=\"gus sleeps through it all\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>My plan worked &#8211; Gus was able to keep sleeping without being disturbed by dad.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 60%;\">(I may also have gotten some treats out of the deal.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-Betsy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"59\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2007\/12\/07\/moving-furniture\/betsys-new-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"143,136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Betsy&amp;#8217;s New Portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59\" title=\"Betsy's New Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus sleeps, Betsy begs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[9,11,10,76],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-betsy","tag-bunny-behavior","tag-gus","tag-litter-box"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}