{"id":27679,"date":"2010-12-28T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=27679"},"modified":"2011-01-03T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:15:02","slug":"the-tragic-pet-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=27679","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Pet Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to pets, men want a buddy and women want a child.<\/p>\n<p>On his show Dec. 27, 2010, Dennis Prager said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I get enough disagreement outside of my house. Inside my house, I really like harmony. The more you agree on [as a couple], the better. When you step outside the house, you can take on the world. Inside the house, you don\u2019t want to take on your spouse.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the pet horror stories of my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>My father would come in my room every week and see that the turtle hadn&#8217;t moved. The lettuce is still there. &#8220;Dennis, he&#8217;s dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s dead. They just don&#8217;t do much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dennis, he&#8217;s dead. We don&#8217;t need a dead turtle in the house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, dad, that&#8217;s the way turtles are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dennis, he&#8217;s dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All right. I believed my dad. I flushed him down the toilet and then he started crawling.<\/p>\n<p>Every pet we had came to an [unfortunate end].<\/p>\n<p>As the flushing started, no, he didn&#8217;t get out. He can&#8217;t escape a flush. It&#8217;s a terrible story.<\/p>\n<p>Then we had a bird. My father looked at the bird and said, &#8220;I feel sorry for him. We should let him fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, dad, you can&#8217;t let him out of the cage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let him fly! The animal is suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, I&#8217;m telling you, these birds, it&#8217;s not a good idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dennis, it&#8217;s not right the way we are treating him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So we let the bird out. He sees a mirror. He flies to the other bird. He cracks his skull. Dead bird.<\/p>\n<p>We had another one. Something tragic happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to pets, men want a buddy and women want a child. On his show Dec. 27, 2010, Dennis Prager said: I get enough disagreement outside of my house. Inside my house, I really like harmony. The more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=27679\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24797,24795,29761,24222,4426,24796],"class_list":["post-27679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-dead-bird","tag-dead-turtle","tag-dennis-prager","tag-horror-stories","tag-lettuce","tag-ok-dad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28073,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679\/revisions\/28073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}