{"id":119,"date":"2008-08-19T04:59:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-dies-while-officer-writes-speeding-ticket\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T22:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:17:23","slug":"dog-dies-while-officer-writes-speeding-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-dies-while-officer-writes-speeding-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog dies while officer writes speeding ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief. My mom read me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5stardog.com\/Dog-Rescaue\/re-449316_Dog-dies-while-officer-writes-owner-a-speeding-ticket.aspx\" title=\"dog  and speeding tiket\">this story <\/a>and we both felt really sad.<\/p>\n<p>Sure&#8230;the guy shouldn&#8217;t be speeding, even for an important mission like taking the dog to the animal hospital. But the officer apparently said, &#8220;It&#8217;s just a dog. You can get another one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not especially big on teacup poodles but we were pretty shocked ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>My mom once read a book a long time ago, Travels with Lizbeth. A young homeless man traveled around the US with his dog, Lizbeth. Once a social worker suggested he should give away the dog to get a night at a shelter. &#8220;Who&#8217;s the crazy person?&#8221; the young man wondered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t just get another dog,&#8221; my mom says. &#8220;Gracie, you&#8217;re very cute, but you&#8217;re not Keesha. Keesha would never chew up her own dog bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I ignore my mom and just go to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief. My mom read me this story and we both felt really sad. Sure&#8230;the guy shouldn&#8217;t be speeding, even for an important mission like taking the dog to the animal hospital. But the officer apparently said, &#8220;It&#8217;s just a dog. You can get another one.&#8221; We&#8217;re not especially big on teacup poodles but we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-dies-while-officer-writes-speeding-ticket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog dies while officer writes speeding ticket<\/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":[175,100,174,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}