{"id":113,"date":"2008-08-03T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/new-housemate-is-taking-over\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:22:09","slug":"new-housemate-is-taking-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/new-housemate-is-taking-over\/","title":{"rendered":"New housemate is taking over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what happens on a Sunday evening. We&#8217;re all tired. Mom&#8217;s been working and she moved her laptop to the living room so we could all be together.<\/p>\n<p>Ophelia, our new housemate, got tired of hanging out in the laundry room. So she moved to the closet. And today she<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/together.gif\" alt=\"dog and cat together\" align=\"right\" height=\"178\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"240\" \/> scrambled up on the couch. A classic takeover.<\/p>\n<p>And what am I doing? My mom took me on a long walk today. It was very warm. As you can see, I&#8217;m exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy was so thrilled. Our family is coming together again. Ophelia is fitting in.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s got a pile of books to read. She&#8217;s always looking for books to recommend to her readers, she says. But I know she&#8217;s got a murder mystery tucked away for times when she goes brain dead. Which, in my opinion, happens whenever she spends time with the cats.  She isn&#8217;t crazy about Ophelia&#8217;s name but we can&#8217;t think of anything else.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/creamwake.gif\" alt=\"cat sleeping\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" \/>And where&#8217;s our other little family member? Yep&#8230;sound asleep on her chair. I told you we were all exhausted.  That&#8217;s how Ophelia gets away with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what happens on a Sunday evening. We&#8217;re all tired. Mom&#8217;s been working and she moved her laptop to the living room so we could all be together. Ophelia, our new housemate, got tired of hanging out in the laundry room. So she moved to the closet. And today she scrambled up on the couch. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/new-housemate-is-taking-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New housemate is taking over<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,84],"tags":[163,137,164,165,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}