{"id":1222,"date":"2009-11-17T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2009-11-17T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:22:21","slug":"dog-owner-gets-scrooge-y-around-holiday-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-owner-gets-scrooge-y-around-holiday-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Owner Gets Scrooge-Y Around Holiday Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy has a secret. Well, it&#8217;s not exactly a secret since she showed me clippings of published articles in newspapers, proudly presenting her views on holidays. She hates them. You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copy-cat-copywriting.com\/single.html\">her article here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cathy especially hates Thanksgiving. &#8220;Long dinners with small talk with people I barely know. A feast of food, mostly not healthy. Who needs this?&#8221; she asks. &#8220;Gracie, I could just take you to the dog park for an extra run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like that idea. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, as a dog, I enjoy going visiting. I love meeting new people. Everyone makes a fuss over me. Usually I can persuade a kind soul to slip me some turkey when my mom isn&#8217;t looking. (Don&#8217;t ask me what else they feed me. My mom would have a heart attack.)<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing for the holidays?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.copy-cat-copywriting.com\/blogimages\/arrow-squared.gif\" title=\"comment on blog here\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"91\" height=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy has a secret. Well, it&#8217;s not exactly a secret since she showed me clippings of published articles in newspapers, proudly presenting her views on holidays. She hates them. You can read her article here. Cathy especially hates Thanksgiving. &#8220;Long dinners with small talk with people I barely know. A feast of food, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-owner-gets-scrooge-y-around-holiday-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Owner Gets Scrooge-Y Around Holiday Time<\/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\/1222"}],"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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}