{"id":1358,"date":"2009-12-10T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2010-02-17T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:30:33","slug":"pottery-studio-dog-gets-a-break-all-too-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/city-dog\/pottery-studio-dog-gets-a-break-all-too-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Pottery Studio: Dog gets a break (all too short)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"pottery studio with owner and dog\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/dec5potterystudio.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"236\"  hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\/>Mom asked her classmate Megan to take a picture of us. She&#8217;s wearing a pottery smock thing (they keep some hanging on the door and she just grabbed one). There&#8217;s where Mom was working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a pottery wheel, Gracie,&#8221; Mom explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s noisy,&#8221; I wanted to say. &#8220;This place is not fun for a dog. There&#8217;s a big thing that roars and gives off heat. There are all these shiny floors. Nothing for a dog to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keesha, my first dog, used to sleep while I worked,&#8221; Mom said wistfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keesha was older,&#8221; I wanted to remind her. &#8220;Anyway, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed, I&#8217;m Gracie, your dog du jour.&#8221; Dogs get a little sarcastic when we&#8217;re bored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t this better than being home in your crate?&#8221; Mom said. &#8220;Look at all the attention you get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a tie vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom asked her classmate Megan to take a picture of us. She&#8217;s wearing a pottery smock thing (they keep some hanging on the door and she just grabbed one). There&#8217;s where Mom was working. &#8220;It&#8217;s a pottery wheel, Gracie,&#8221; Mom explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s noisy,&#8221; I wanted to say. &#8220;This place is not fun for a dog. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/city-dog\/pottery-studio-dog-gets-a-break-all-too-short\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pottery Studio: Dog gets a break (all too short)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[235,240],"tags":[110,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"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=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}