{"id":143,"date":"2008-10-12T03:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/halloween-starts-early-at-the-dog-lounge\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:31:34","slug":"halloween-starts-early-at-the-dog-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/halloween-starts-early-at-the-dog-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween starts early at the Dog Lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So mom leaves me at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtowndoglounge.com\/\" title=\"Downtown Dog Lounge\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Dog lounge <\/a>while she goes gadding about with my Uncle Lance. They went to the Farmers Market where I&#8217;m not allowed.  I love the Dog Lounge. Today I spent a few hours with Summer and Sue.  They dressed me up in a Halloween costume and took my picture.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/graciehalloween.gif\" alt=\"gracie in halloween costume\" align=\"right\" height=\"214\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;m putting up with this fuss because they&#8217;re so nice. I get lots of attention whenever I stay there. But hey, I&#8217;m a dog. Dogs are supposed to be naked. My mom knows that. She won&#8217;t even buy me a cute little winter coat.<\/p>\n<p>My mom hates Halloween. One year someone persuaded her to go to a party. (Of course I wasn&#8217;t even born then, but I hear about it every year.) Cathy dressed up as a hippie. She wore  beads and tattered old jeans. Several people asked why she hadn&#8217;t come in costume.  I guess Cathy was even more fashion-challenged than she is now.<\/p>\n<p>That was her last Halloween party. For life, she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So mom leaves me at the Downtown Dog lounge while she goes gadding about with my Uncle Lance. They went to the Farmers Market where I&#8217;m not allowed. I love the Dog Lounge. Today I spent a few hours with Summer and Sue. They dressed me up in a Halloween costume and took my picture. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/halloween-starts-early-at-the-dog-lounge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Halloween starts early at the Dog Lounge<\/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":[202,5,203,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}