{"id":1003,"date":"2009-09-11T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2009-09-12T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T17:56:42","slug":"wnba-seattle-storm-basketball-game-surprises-my-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/wnba-seattle-storm-basketball-game-surprises-my-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Seattle Storm Basketball Game Surprises My Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mom came home later than usual after the game last night. I was more than ready for my evening walk. But she was in a great mood. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game was not at all boring! The score was never more than 5 or 6 points apart! We went into overtime!&#8221; she exclaimed, hooking up my leash. &#8220;Can you believe it? The reserves held off Taurasi and Pondexter! We&#8217;d have won if we hadn&#8217;t gotten a couple of really bad calls from the referees. WNBA officiating is <em>so<\/em> bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, mom, the call is one of a more down-to-earth kind,&#8221; I said. <\/p>\n<p>Nobody at the rescue group warned me. If you&#8217;re looking for an owner, try to choose someone who&#8217;s NOT a basketball fan. And my mom should listen to her friend Bill more often. He was right about the game, wasn&#8217;t he? So she needs to pay attention when he advocates spoiling all dogs rotten. No diets for <em>his <\/em>dogs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom came home later than usual after the game last night. I was more than ready for my evening walk. But she was in a great mood. &#8220;The game was not at all boring! The score was never more than 5 or 6 points apart! We went into overtime!&#8221; she exclaimed, hooking up my leash. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/wnba-seattle-storm-basketball-game-surprises-my-mom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WNBA Seattle Storm Basketball Game Surprises My Mom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,27,48,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}