{"id":1064,"date":"2009-10-04T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T08:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-10-04T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T08:11:21","slug":"do-animals-take-care-of-ailing-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/do-animals-take-care-of-ailing-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Do animals take care of ailing owners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times ran an article about a woman with cancer who adopted a dog. She thought she would die at age 30 ane she just had one regret: not getting a dog. That&#8217;s huge. Now she&#8217;s an animal rescuer.<a href=\" http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/02\/when-illness-brings-you-closer-to-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Read about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several readers wrote comments, saying their pets helped the get through an illness. My mom is disgustingly healthy, thank goodness. On the rare occasions she feels under the weather, I must admit it&#8217;s business as usual. I used to be pressed into service as a heating pad on cold winter nights. Now that Ophelia&#8217;s here, I&#8217;m off the hook. Ophelia is fat and fuzzy. She adores my mom and will tolerate some cuddling for at least an hour or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times ran an article about a woman with cancer who adopted a dog. She thought she would die at age 30 ane she just had one regret: not getting a dog. That&#8217;s huge. Now she&#8217;s an animal rescuer. Read about it here. Several readers wrote comments, saying their pets helped the get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/do-animals-take-care-of-ailing-owners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do animals take care of ailing owners?<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}