{"id":144,"date":"2012-04-18T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2012-06-14T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:58:25","slug":"so-many-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/so-many-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much writing lately. Hard to stay inside at the computer when the sun and the animals are calling. This morning I scrubbed out the birdbaths, which the animals drink from too, the baths being at a perfect height for leisurely drinking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ulysses-drink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145\" title=\"Ulysses at water bucket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ulysses-drink-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ulysses the donkey at the water bucket\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ulysses-drink-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ulysses-drink-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ulysses-drink.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The many choices of Ulysses<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just after I finished refilling them came Ulysses, the youngest donkey, to see what I was up to. Here he is deciding whether to drink from the bucket or the birdbath. He ended up going for a third option\u2014coming over to me for some hugs and coat scratching. I obliged, marveling yet again and still that I get to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, his father was blissfully massaging his neck on the Gate to Everywhere.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/raphael-gate2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146\" title=\"Raphael scratching on the gate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/raphael-gate2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael the donkey scratching on the gate\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/raphael-gate2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/raphael-gate2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/raphael-gate2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael giving himself a massage<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much writing lately. Hard to stay inside at the computer when the sun and the animals are calling. This morning I scrubbed out the birdbaths, which the animals drink from too, the baths being at a perfect height &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/so-many-choices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}