{"id":796,"date":"2005-10-19T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=796"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"merlynn-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/10\/merlynn-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlynn died %("},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/chinchillas\/chinimage2.jpg\" alt=\"Merlynn\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Annette just called me on my cellphone to tell me that Merlynn died. She was 8 years old, chinchillas generally live as long as cats, so while this isn&#8217;t &#8220;young&#8221; it isn&#8217;t old either. My sister didn&#8217;t give details, but she must have gotten sick.<\/p>\n<p>This is sad %(<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so tempted to go into a big ole blurb about my first chinchillas and how important Merlynn was to me and to her mate, but I&#8217;ll keep it short.<\/p>\n<p>Merlynn was the first chinchilla we ever bought from a breeder. We bought her after the loss of my first chinchilla, Eve, who I was very close to. I have a whole page about chinchillas and the ones I&#8217;ve owned <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/chinchillas.html\">here<\/a>. They were a big part of my life for a few years in high school. When I left home in 2000 I was not in a position to take her with me, chinchillas don&#8217;t travel well and I didn&#8217;t have a stable home. It was heartbreaking, I missed her and Dweezle so much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen them a couple times since moving away, but I still feel a loss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace Merlynn, you were a dear, may our paths cross again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette just called me on my cellphone to tell me that Merlynn died. She was 8 years old, chinchillas generally live as long as cats, so while this isn&#8217;t &#8220;young&#8221; it isn&#8217;t old either. My sister didn&#8217;t give details, but she must have gotten sick. This is sad %( I&#8217;m so tempted to go into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}