{"id":163,"date":"2008-11-30T20:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/mom-looks-great-and-im-exhausted\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T04:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:26:04","slug":"mom-looks-great-and-im-exhausted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/mom-looks-great-and-im-exhausted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom looks great and I&#8217;m exhausted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom has been getting compliments on her new svelte self.  Back in August, she declared 2008-2009 the Year of the Body.  I must admit, I&#8217;m surprised. She keeps to her self-imposed diet (based on a combo of the Food Ranger and a couple of books she read). She goes to exercise classes.<\/p>\n<p>She won&#8217;t get on a scale, but the other day she said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t wear these shorts anymore. They&#8217;re falling<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/loose-shorts.gif\" alt=\"losingi inches\" align=\"right\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"160\" \/> off! I can&#8217;t hold them up when I&#8217;m holding <em>your<\/em> leash.&#8221; She gave me a look that said, &#8220;Somebody needs to walk better on leash.&#8221; Who, me?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s always complaining about sore muscles but I have no sympathy. Mom&#8217;s got me on a good behavior program. That means I go to Magnuson Park twice a week and the Dog Lounge at least once a week. I&#8217;m tired too. Mom says, &#8220;Dogs are supposed  to feel a little sleepy all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great idea in theory, but I seem to be in a one-down position when it comes to the cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom has been getting compliments on her new svelte self. Back in August, she declared 2008-2009 the Year of the Body. I must admit, I&#8217;m surprised. She keeps to her self-imposed diet (based on a combo of the Food Ranger and a couple of books she read). She goes to exercise classes. She won&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/mom-looks-great-and-im-exhausted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mom looks great and I&#8217;m exhausted.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,27,60],"tags":[245,182,223,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}