{"id":8976,"date":"2012-06-27T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2012-06-27T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:56:04","slug":"all-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8976","title":{"rendered":"All ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/7411628492\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7109\/7411628492_9bb12d48d5.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird how, at the end of the day, I ended up exactly where I was at the end of yesterday: driving the dog to the vet.<\/p>\n<p>He has this ear infection, one he&#8217;s had pretty much his entire life, off but mostly on. We&#8217;re trying this new treatment, which is apparently throwing lots and lots of money at the problem and doing so <i>every single day<\/i> this week. <\/p>\n<p>No, in all seriousness, it&#8217;s for a series of injections that we&#8217;re bringing him in every day, hoping this will finally get rid of the nasty organisms living in Tucker&#8217;s ear canal. (At the last culture, about a month ago, it was a lovely mix of E. coli, strep, and pseudomonas.) My mother brought him to the vet on Monday, which is when they hit upon this solution, and I&#8217;ve brought him both days since.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker, on the other hand (er, paw) would just as happily stay home.<\/p>\n<p>My own day was pretty much nothing out of the ordinary. Lots of work, lots of talk about what our competitors are doing, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s weird how, at the end of the day, I ended up exactly where I was at the end of yesterday: driving the dog to the vet. He has this ear infection, one he&#8217;s had pretty much his entire life, off but mostly on. We&#8217;re trying this new treatment, which is apparently throwing lots and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8976\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}