{"id":251,"date":"2020-01-24T07:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/?p=251"},"modified":"2020-01-24T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:34:24","slug":"you-forgot-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/2020\/01\/24\/you-forgot-one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"You Forgot One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
Photo by Justine FG<\/a> from FreeImages<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Write a short story in epistolary form<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dear Mr. Noodle,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope this letter finds you well.  Mom says that you are now on a farm.  She says that your old bones needed to move\naway from the city and that a lot of dogs go to farms to retire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I am angry.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why you left so suddenly, and it\u2019s not fair that no one told me you were going away.\u00a0 I went to school yesterday morning, and you were there, saying goodbye.\u00a0 Well, not really saying goodbye, because dogs can\u2019t talk and because you really didn\u2019t even get up from your bed. But I saw you lift an eyebrow. The same eyebrow that you always lift when someone pulls out your leash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs it that time again?\u201d your eyebrow seems to\nsay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course you don\u2019t really have eyebrows. More\nlike brow dots with a couple of hairs coming out of them.  Dog eyebrows are funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why did you go away, Mr. Noodle? It\u2019s not\nlike we asked very much of you.  Most of\nthe time you just laid about on the floor near the kitchen. Or you waited on\nyour bed for someone to walk by and pat you on the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well who\u2019s going to do that now, Mr.\nNoodle?  Who do you think is going to pat\nyour head now? I can\u2019t believe that you just took off \u2013 WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom says that at the farm you will be with\nlots of other old dogs \u2013 that it\u2019s an old dog farm. I think you\u2019re being\nselfish. You seem to forget that for eight years, since I\u2019ve been alive, I\u2019ve\nbeen your best friend.  And before that,\nMom says that she and Dad were your best friends.  So what makes you think that you can just\nwalk away from your best friends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m writing to you because I want you to know\nthat you forgot your Kong.  Your beloved\nKong.  I gave you that Kong for Christmas\nwhen I was 5.  And you just left it.  Mom says that you won\u2019t need it at the farm,\nbut that makes me mad.  Are you going to\nget toys from your dog friends? I don\u2019t think so. Are you going to regret not\nhaving your Kong when there\u2019s a thunderstorm and you can\u2019t stop shaking? We\nboth know the answer to that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Noodle, why couldn\u2019t you have retired here\nwith us? Sure, you weren\u2019t much of a guard dog anymore. But you were part of\nour family. And now you\u2019re gone.  Please\ncome back.  I\u2019ll brush you every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your best friend, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronny <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Write a short story in epistolary form Dear Mr. Noodle, I hope this letter finds you well.  Mom says that you are now on a farm.  She says that your old bones needed to move away from the city and that a lot of dogs go to farms to retire. But I am angry.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why you left … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[61,55,60,58,59,63,62],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts","tag-animal-loss","tag-animals-as-characters","tag-death","tag-dogs","tag-farm","tag-kong","tag-letter","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}