{"id":506,"date":"2009-03-07T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/07\/rest-in-peace-mandy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T17:40:39","slug":"rest-in-peace-mandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/rest-in-peace-mandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest In Peace Mandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_20081231-_MG_8106-Edit.jpg?resize=100%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Yesterday was a very difficult day for us at home.\u00a0 We had to say goodbye to a long time part of the family.\u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quarter horse<\/a>, Mandy, has been sick the past month or so, and she wasn&#8217;t making any progress, so we had a tough decision to make.\u00a0 At nearly 31 years old, we figured it was time.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve only had Mandy here at the house for about 16 months, but my wife has had her for 22 years, so it was a very tough decision to make.\u00a0 But it was for the best &#8211; she had lived a long life (in &#8220;human&#8221; years, she would have been about 82), and up until she got sick, was a very happy girl.\u00a0 We decided to put her down since she hadn&#8217;t eaten in the past five days, and it would be better than letting her starve to death.\u00a0 It was hard, but at about 4:10PM on Friday March 6, 2009, she took her last breath.\u00a0 She died as she had lived &#8211; a tough old girl.\u00a0 We laid her to rest right next to her barn.\u00a0 Last night, I went through the photos I had of her, and picked a few out as a tribute.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Anne&#8217;s Command (Mandy)<br \/>\nMay 22, 1978 &#8211; March 6, 2009 <\/strong><\/p>\n[cpg_album:514]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a very difficult day for us at home.\u00a0 We had to say goodbye to a long time part of the family.\u00a0 Our quarter horse, Mandy, has been sick the past month or so, and she wasn&#8217;t making any progress, so we had a tough decision to make.\u00a0 At nearly 31 years old, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,54],"tags":[137,235,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-equine-photography","7":"category-misc-stuff","8":"tag-equine","9":"tag-horse","10":"tag-pet","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}