{"id":1472,"date":"2009-12-29T06:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2010-02-17T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:26:39","slug":"dog-plays-with-santa-toy-while-mom-attempts-pottery-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/pottery\/dog-plays-with-santa-toy-while-mom-attempts-pottery-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Plays With Santa Toy While Mom Attempts Pottery (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom took me to the pottery studio again. She enjoys my company and (let&#8217;s not kid ourselves) says she doesn&#8217;t feel as guilty when I come along. &#8220;I hate leaving you alone in your crate,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Watching my mom make cylinders is SO boring. She has so little talent and so much motivation. I guess it&#8217;s the human equivalent of a dog with a bone..or a new toy.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, my mom has begun to realize that I need to be entertained. Today she brought along the Santa toy that we got from my wonderful Aunt Sara. Now there&#8217;s someone who knows how to choose a dog gift! Maybe she&#8217;ll suggest a new leash to my mom next time. Is that a hint?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having fun. It&#8217;s about as meaningful as my mom&#8217;s pottery activity, takes up a lot less space and doesn&#8217;t lead to a lot of misshapen objects that get foisted on her friends.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5-Z8dFBmxzs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5-Z8dFBmxzs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom took me to the pottery studio again. She enjoys my company and (let&#8217;s not kid ourselves) says she doesn&#8217;t feel as guilty when I come along. &#8220;I hate leaving you alone in your crate,&#8221; she says. Watching my mom make cylinders is SO boring. She has so little talent and so much motivation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/pottery\/dog-plays-with-santa-toy-while-mom-attempts-pottery-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Plays With Santa Toy While Mom Attempts Pottery (Video)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[240],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472"}],"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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}