{"id":5673,"date":"2014-04-13T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2014-04-13T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T16:57:49","slug":"sugars-health-may-finally-be-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"Sugar&#8217;s health may finally be failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update for friends of Sugar only; you know who you are.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar may not have much time left.  She&#8217;s been losing weight rapidly the last couple weeks, her appetite is intermittent, and she&#8217;s been having nausea episodes. She seems remarkably cheerful under the circumstances and still likes human company as much as ever, but &#8230; she really does seem old and frail now, which wasn&#8217;t so as recently as her 21st birthday in early February.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re bracing ourselves.  If the rate she&#8217;s fading doesn&#8217;t change I think we&#8217;re going to have to euthanize her within six weeks or so.  Possibly sooner.  Possibly a lot sooner.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar&#8217;s had a good long run.  We&#8217;ll miss her a lot, but Cathy and I are both clear that it is our duty not to see her suffering prolonged unnecessarily.  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a friend of Sugar and have any option to visit here to say your farewells, best do it <em>immediately<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve somehow read this far without having met Sugar: I don&#8217;t normally blog about strictly personal things, but Sugar is a bit of an institution.  She&#8217;s been a friend to the many hackers who have guested in our storied basement; I&#8217;ve seen her innocent joyfulness light up a lot of faces. We&#8217;re not the only people who will be affected by losing her.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update for friends of Sugar only; you know who you are. Sugar may not have much time left. She&#8217;s been losing weight rapidly the last couple weeks, her appetite is intermittent, and she&#8217;s been having nausea episodes. She seems remarkably cheerful under the circumstances and still likes human company as much as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5673\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sugar&#8217;s health may finally be failing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-sugar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}