{"id":878,"date":"2013-04-03T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-04-01T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:48:46","slug":"paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/2013\/04\/03\/paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a dog person. Funny, considering my last post was about kittens, I know. Well my companion, my valentine, my hide-and-seek partner, my fuzzy four-legged best friend, was my dog, Taz.<\/p>\n

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After fourteen years of bike rides and otter pops and paw-high-fives and tail chasing, I’m sad to say Taz passed away at the end of last semester. Though he is no longer physically here, he will always be a large part of my life and always in my heart; I am eternally grateful for love, laughs, and pure, unbridled joy he provided and greeted me with every day. Because of the impact he had on my life, he’s been a large part of my inspiration in art. I actually based my most recent digital art assignment off of him–in my digital imaging class, we were to create a completely new and “recontexualized” image by synthesizing other images. So I chose to create “Doggy Heaven”:<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s a little corny, but I wanted to create an image that you couldn’t help but smile upon seeing. I took all his favorite things–jollyballs, milkbones, rawhides, butterflies, even a jar of Jiff–and created what I thought his paradise might look like. I was tired of people feeling sad upon hearing that my best friend is no longer with us, because I myself can’t help but smile at his memory. Instead of being sad he’s gone, I smile because he was here. How can I not, when I remember such a goofy,<\/p>\n

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adorable,<\/p>\n

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and wonderful friend?<\/p>\n

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Rest in peace, buddy, Love you always, thank you for everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a dog person. Funny, considering my last post was about kittens, I know. Well my companion, my valentine, my hide-and-seek partner, my fuzzy four-legged best friend, was my dog, Taz. After fourteen years of bike rides and otter … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,37,40,176,149,100,177],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maddie-peckenpaugh-16","tag-art","tag-cute","tag-digital","tag-dog","tag-friend","tag-photos","tag-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}