{"id":10991,"date":"2025-01-09T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:20:47","slug":"remembering-sparkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/remembering-sparkles\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sparkles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" data-attachment-id=\"10992\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/remembering-sparkles\/image-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1148\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-400x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-600x336.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10992\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-400x224.jpg 400w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-144x81.jpg 144w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not my photo.  This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doomedmoviethon.com\">doomedmoviethon<\/a>&#8216;s photo.  But it is of our fabulous kitty Sparkles, who I miss very much.  Look at the ruff!  So poofy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not my photo. This is doomedmoviethon&#8216;s photo. But it is of our fabulous kitty Sparkles, who I miss very much. Look at the ruff! So poofy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[92,66],"class_list":["post-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cats","tag-sparkles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3700,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/more-sparkles\/","url_meta":{"origin":10991,"position":0},"title":"More Sparkles","author":"leems","date":"April 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sparkles002","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sparkles002-268x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2778,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/the-new-crisco-and-sparkles\/","url_meta":{"origin":10991,"position":1},"title":"The new Crisco and Sparkles","author":"leems","date":"November 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever wonder what your pets would look like if they were human, or almost human (in Baby's case). \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crisco001-103x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3545,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/04\/06\/gratuitous-cat-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":10991,"position":2},"title":"Gratuitous cat love","author":"leems","date":"April 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While I was trying to snap a shot of her angry face she kept looking away. 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