{"id":2580,"date":"2010-03-16T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T00:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2010-03-16T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T00:23:44","slug":"mr-bit-1993-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mr-bit-1993-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Bit, 1993-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2581\" title=\"DSCN1877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1877.JPG\" alt=\"DSCN1877\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1877.JPG 500w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1877-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1877-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Another of my cats crossed the proverbial Rainbow Bridge today, ending 14 years of faithful companionship. Our vet says we did the right thing but that doesn&#8217;t lessen the sense of betrayal, even though <strong>Mr. Bit<\/strong> could no longer eat without pain and was losing the ability to stand upright. His once-mighty haunches had completely atrophied and my chubby little pal was a wisp of his youthful self. I choose to mark his passing with this photo, taken a few weeks ago, as it seems to express where he was at that moment: leaving the material world and heading into Eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the adventure, pal. We&#8217;ll lift a glass to you tonight at <strong>Todd English P.U.B.<\/strong> (A hideous coinage, no?) Your lovably obstreperous personality can never be replaced and will always be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of my cats crossed the proverbial Rainbow Bridge today, ending 14 years of faithful companionship. Our vet says we did the right thing but that doesn&#8217;t lessen the sense of betrayal, even though Mr. Bit could no longer eat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mr-bit-1993-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,56,28,18,99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}