{"id":1699,"date":"2010-03-25T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:20:46","slug":"so-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/so-whats-the-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"So what’s the big deal…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Of course I sleep. Dogs sleep most of the time. So do cats.<\/p>\n

What’s unusual, my mom says, is that dogs and cats rarely sleep together. she keeps taking pictures of me with Ophelia on our own special corner of the couch.<\/p>\n

This time I got to the couch first and Ophelia went into the dominant sleeping position that only a cat can take. <\/p>\n

“What’s wrong with your dog bed?” my mom asks. “It’s nice and fuzzy and you would have room to stretch out.”<\/p>\n

“Who cares?” I say. “The important thing is that Ophelia’s getting way too confident in this household. She’s the most recent acquisition. She started out as a timid, fearful feline and now…she’s taken over.”<\/p>\n

Alas, my mom is the kind of person who roots for the underdog. She’s thrilled to see Ophelia making such great progress. She’d like to see Ophelia and Creampuff getting along, instead of this triangle where both cats adore the dog.<\/p>\n

Well, what’s not to love? Total strangers come up to say, “Aww….what a cute dog.” Even a cat can recognize an adorable housemate when she sees one.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back to the nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course I sleep. Dogs sleep most of the time. So do cats. What’s unusual, my mom says, is that dogs and cats rarely sleep together. she keeps taking pictures of me with Ophelia on our own special corner of the couch. This time I got to the couch first and Ophelia went into the … Continue reading So what’s the big deal…<\/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":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"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=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}