{"id":1191,"date":"2009-10-28T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2009-11-14T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:01:48","slug":"fall-is-coming-to-seattle-and-dogs-are-getting-colder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/fall-is-coming-to-seattle-and-dogs-are-getting-colder\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall is coming to Seattle and dogs are getting colder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/gracieestreet2.gif\" title=\"dog on street corner in seattle\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"350\" height=\"259\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"7\"\/>Here I&#8217;m standng on a street corner, waiting for my mom Cathy to lead me across the street. Notice I&#8217;m surrounded by wet leaves and I&#8217;ve got leaves caught between my two hind feet. Wet and slippery. Yuk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always alert to protect my mom from weird strangers. The problem is, I can&#8217;t share my definition of &#8220;weird&#8221; with my mom. Sometimes I&#8217;ll bark at a person who seems perfectly nice and respectable. <\/p>\n<p>Recently we walked past a woman who looked like a street person. I barked assertively. But the woman stopped and politely asked permission fto pat me. &#8220;I used to train dogs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is a good one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She gave me a complete butt massage..aahh, that felt good. I snuggled up to show my appreciation. Then my mom reminded me, &#8220;Gracie, we are out here so you can do your business.&#8221; Oops&#8230;almost forgot. With a friendly wave (mom) and tail wag (me), we were on our way. What a great way to have a morning walk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I&#8217;m standng on a street corner, waiting for my mom Cathy to lead me across the street. Notice I&#8217;m surrounded by wet leaves and I&#8217;ve got leaves caught between my two hind feet. Wet and slippery. Yuk. I&#8217;m always alert to protect my mom from weird strangers. The problem is, I can&#8217;t share my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/fall-is-coming-to-seattle-and-dogs-are-getting-colder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall is coming to Seattle and dogs are getting colder<\/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\/1191"}],"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=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}