{"id":55103,"date":"2026-01-25T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=55103"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:12:30","slug":"sophie-the-hamster-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/sophie-the-hamster-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie the hamster is no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/sophie-the-hamster-is-no-more\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-55103 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17699665778912264802254976112818.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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Hamsters have an average lifespan of less than 2 years. Sophie was a few months shy of her 3rd birthday. We got her around easter and she saw 3 Christmases. She lived off of benevolent neglect, aided by her emotional support cat. In the end, she was slowing down but we tried to let her life her best life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By hamster reckoning, Sophie was antediluvian. Hamsters have an average lifespan of less than 2 years. Sophie was a few months shy of her 3rd birthday. We got her around easter and she saw 3 Christmases. She lived off of benevolent neglect, aided by her emotional support cat. In the end, she was slowing down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/sophie-the-hamster-is-no-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sophie the hamster is no more&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[1],"tags":[542,307],"class_list":["post-55103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hamster","tag-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-ekL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55105,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103\/revisions\/55105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}