{"id":1362,"date":"2009-12-11T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2010-02-17T23:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:29:42","slug":"after-all-this-pottery-work-we-geta-cylinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/city-dog\/after-all-this-pottery-work-we-geta-cylinder\/","title":{"rendered":"After all this pottery work, we get…a cylinder?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My mom says, “Pottery is wonderful because it makes no sense at all.”<\/p>\n

True.<\/p>\n

She goes on, “I have no talent for pottery. I am not buildng on strengths. I’ll never be an accomplished potter. The world doesn’t need any more pots. It’s purely for its own sake.”<\/p>\n

Really? That’s the way dogs operate. We just do what we enjoy. Humans make things complicated.<\/p>\n

My mom was so excited. “I made a cylinder!” she exclaimed. “It’s practically even!” She showed it to Megan, an accomplished potter, who pretended to be impressed.<\/p>\n

For this we had to come up all the way to the pottery studio? I could have chased a dozen tennis balls by now…about as useful as mom’s quest for a perfect cylinder. <\/p>\n

“I’m getting fussy,” she said. “If it’s not even, I don’t keep it.”<\/p>\n

Well, I’m pretty fussy about who and what I play with, too. Same thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom says, “Pottery is wonderful because it makes no sense at all.” True. She goes on, “I have no talent for pottery. I am not buildng on strengths. I’ll never be an accomplished potter. The world doesn’t need any more pots. It’s purely for its own sake.” Really? That’s the way dogs operate. We … Continue reading After all this pottery work, we get…a cylinder?!<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}