{"id":415,"date":"2008-09-29T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:30:19","slug":"sylvester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend much time here on my blog, you know that we are empty nesters. It has been nearly 7 years since Lauren, our younger daughter, moved out, so we have become used to a relatively quiet life with only <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/riley\">Riley<\/a> and perhaps an occasional unwanted<a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/life%20out%20in%20the%20country\">guest<\/a>. Ellyn and the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/grandchildren\">kids<\/a> did come to stay with us for a few months earlier this year while she and Jason found a house to buy, but they left at the end of May and we settled back into our usual routine fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in June, we noticed that someone new had come to stay with us. He was just a baby when he first got here, but he kind of grew on us and now we have become rather fond of him. He is a quiet fellow and not at all demanding. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3109\" title=\"sq3\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq3.jpg\" alt=\"sq3\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq3.jpg 500w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq3-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> I would like to introduce Sylvester A. Squash. Sylvester is an &#8220;Argonaut&#8221; squash and presently weighs in at an amazing 22 pounds. Anyone with this imposing a presence surely demands recognition. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3106\" title=\"sq1\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq1.jpg\" alt=\"sq1\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>And as &#8220;squash years&#8221;, much the same as dog years, are counted differently than human years, he is old enough to join us for cocktail hour. He enjoys a nice glass of Chenin Blanc just as much as the next <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">person<\/span> squash.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3110\" title=\"sq2\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq2.jpg\" alt=\"sq2\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sq2-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend much time here on my blog, you know that we are empty nesters. It has been nearly 7 years since Lauren, our younger daughter, moved out, so we have become used to a relatively quiet life with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}