I posted on FaceBook this morning, \u201cWe just walked Prince in the pouring rain. We’re either very dedicated to our dog or dedicated to being stupid.\u201d Friend, Gary Forsythe, responded, \u201cWas it purple rain?\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, I had to give that some thought. Of course it wasn\u2019t purple rain; there\u2019s no such thing. But then I remembered there was a rock star who once sang about purple rain. Why was Gary bringing that up just because we walked our dog in the rain?<\/p>\n
Twenty minutes later, I happened to remember that it was Prince who sang Purple Rain<\/em>. I still didn\u2019t see what this had to do with my dog walk.<\/p>\n Another twenty minutes passed and it finally dawned on me that Gary brought up purple rain because my dog\u2019s name is Prince<\/em>.<\/p>\n Yep, I\u2019m a little slow on the up-take, but I do <\/em>eventually get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I posted on FaceBook this morning, \u201cWe just walked Prince in the pouring rain. We’re either very dedicated to our dog or dedicated to being stupid.\u201d Friend, Gary Forsythe, responded, \u201cWas it purple rain?\u201d Well, I had to give that some thought. Of course it wasn\u2019t purple rain; there\u2019s no such thing. But then I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}