{"id":1110,"date":"2009-10-11T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2009-10-11T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T02:15:15","slug":"dog-park-dogs-have-dog-friends-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-park-dogs-have-dog-friends-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Park: Dogs Have Dog Friends Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"General: a German Shepherd dog whos a friend\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/general.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"551\" hspace = \"10\" vspace = \"10\" \/>General is a HUGE German shepherd who lives in our neighborhood. We see him walking with his owners. I can always recognize General because each dog has a unique smell and aura. My mom, who goes by looks, sometimes doesn&#8217; t recognize General.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often we see General in the dog park with his co-owners. Mom can&#8217;t remember their names but she told them to look me up. She hopes they&#8217;ll write a comment with their names (if they want to be known). This is General&#8217;s dad. On the right you see General&#8217;s mom, who just finished her doctorate in child development psychology. My mom likes to talk about academic research so they chatted away after my mom Cathy snapped this picture.<\/p>\n<p>General&#8217;s a nice friendly dog. My mom says, &#8220;You could walk around Pioneer Square or cross Kinnear Park at 3 AM and nobody would bother you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Come on, Mom. I can be pretty ferocious in my own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General is a HUGE German shepherd who lives in our neighborhood. We see him walking with his owners. I can always recognize General because each dog has a unique smell and aura. My mom, who goes by looks, sometimes doesn&#8217; t recognize General. Every so often we see General in the dog park with his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-park-dogs-have-dog-friends-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Park: Dogs Have Dog Friends Too<\/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\/1110"}],"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=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}