{"id":165,"date":"2008-12-08T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/mom-never-gets-sick-but\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T07:47:53","slug":"mom-never-gets-sick-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/mom-never-gets-sick-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom never gets sick, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy never gets sick. She&#8217;s tough! But Saturday evening she started feeling wretched. We all went to bed and slept&#8230;and slept.<\/p>\n<p>She woke up Sunday morning and thought, &#8220;Time for exercise class.&#8221; Then she took me out for a walk (thank goodness!) and staggered home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not today,&#8221; she told me, shaking out a few crunchies so I wouldn&#8217;t starve.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where I earned a year&#8217;s supply of crunchies and treats. I snuggled up next to my mom and didn&#8217;t budge. She felt safe and cozy with me there, stretched out, solid as a rock.<\/p>\n<p>Of course our new housemate, Ophelia, stayed close by. She has her cushion and I have mine. We have an<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/catdog.gif\" alt=\"catand dog\" align=\"right\" height=\"102\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"250\" \/> unspoken agreement and we joined forces to support our ailing owner.<\/p>\n<p>Creampuff disappeared. She probably took advantage of the opportunity to snuggle up to her best friend, Cathy&#8217;s desktop computer. The modem is nice and warm.<\/p>\n<p>By Monday Mom was back to normal. By noon she was drinking her coffee. At 2 PM she took me on a 40-minute walk. By evening she was off to exercise class.<\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow I go to the park with Aunt Sara.  Life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy never gets sick. She&#8217;s tough! But Saturday evening she started feeling wretched. We all went to bed and slept&#8230;and slept. She woke up Sunday morning and thought, &#8220;Time for exercise class.&#8221; Then she took me out for a walk (thank goodness!) and staggered home. &#8220;Not today,&#8221; she told me, shaking out a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/mom-never-gets-sick-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mom never gets sick, but&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,19,84],"tags":[101,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}