{"id":54,"date":"2007-07-24T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-07-24T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T21:00:53","slug":"irish-setter-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Irish Setter Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Jennifer was here for a visit (where &#8220;visit&#8221; = &#8220;help us paint, or else&#8221;) with her two Irish Setters<a title=\"Sullivan's Page\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dogdaysgrooming.com\/sullivan.htm\"> Sullivan<\/a> and <a title=\"Cillian's Page\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dogdaysgrooming.com\/cillian.htm\">Cillian<\/a> (or &#8220;Skillian&#8221; when you get confused about which one you need to tell to stop doing that, although when it doubt, it&#8217;s Cillian).  Since Sullivan, Cillian and Rakki are best buddies, non-stop playing and hijinks ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody loves Sully (or at least the stick Sully has):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Everybody Loves Sully\" id=\"image47\" alt=\"Everybody Loves Sully\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5658.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Awww, Cillian gives Rakki a big sloppy kiss:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image45\" alt=\"Best buddies\" title=\"Best buddies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5618.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s PLAYTIME:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image46\" alt=\"AUGH\" title=\"AUGH\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5619.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sproing:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image48\" alt=\"Zowie\" title=\"Zowie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5670.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vallhund vs Setter faceoff:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image43\" alt=\"Standoff\" title=\"Standoff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5607.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, THE ATTACK (Cillian is leaping to Sully&#8217;s rescue&#8230;or is he?):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image41\" alt=\"Attack!\" title=\"Attack!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5603.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;resulting in a mess of dogs:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image42\" alt=\"Mess\" title=\"Mess\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5606.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heh&#8230;Sullivan and Rakki ganging up on Cillian (look at that face!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" id=\"image49\" alt=\"Yikes\" title=\"Yikes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5679.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The always-successful &#8220;burrow into your opponent&#8217;s neck&#8221; attack:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Rakki attack!\" id=\"image53\" title=\"Rakki attack!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5620.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Horrible mutations caused by atomic radioactive spider bites (how many dogs in this picture?):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"How Many Dogs?\" id=\"image52\" title=\"How Many Dogs?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5645.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, pretending to be noble and dignified:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Sully\" id=\"image51\" title=\"Sully\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5650.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Setter patrol:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Irish Setter Patrol\" id=\"image50\" title=\"Irish Setter Patrol\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dsc_5690.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Jennifer was here for a visit (where &#8220;visit&#8221; = &#8220;help us paint, or else&#8221;) with her two Irish Setters Sullivan and Cillian (or &#8220;Skillian&#8221; when you get confused about which one you need to tell to stop doing that, although when it doubt, it&#8217;s Cillian). Since Sullivan, Cillian and Rakki are best buddies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11,19,5],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dogs","tag-rakki","tag-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}