{"id":125,"date":"2008-08-25T04:51:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/more-on-racing-in-the-rain\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:14:16","slug":"more-on-racing-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/more-on-racing-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"More on racing in the rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom is still sighing over this book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061537934\/themovinglady-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/racing-in-rain.jpg\" alt=\"racing in the rain\" align=\"right\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I have to admit: &#8220;That dog can write.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He lifts me easily; he cradles me, and I can smell the day on him. I can smell everything he&#8217;s done. His work, the auto shop where he&#8217;s behind the counter all day, standing, making nice with the customers who yell at him because their BMWs don&#8217;t work right and it costs too much to fix them&#8230;.&#8221; Every word is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>But this dog adores his owner, Cathy reminds me.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Denny, Enzo writes, &#8220;He is so brilliant. He shines. He&#8217;s beautiful with his hand that grab things and his tongue that says thing and the way he stands and chews his food for so long&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s First Dog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midlifecareerstrategy.com\/photos.html\" title=\"first dog keesha\">Keesha<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midlifecareerstrategy.com\/photos.html\" title=\"first dog keesha\">,<\/a> adored her that way. Me? She&#8217;s okay. I could have done worse. But brilliant? Beautiful? She&#8217;s just mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom is still sighing over this book. And I have to admit: &#8220;That dog can write.&#8221; &#8220;He lifts me easily; he cradles me, and I can smell the day on him. I can smell everything he&#8217;s done. His work, the auto shop where he&#8217;s behind the counter all day, standing, making nice with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/more-on-racing-in-the-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on racing in the rain&#8230;<\/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":[178,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}