{"id":172,"date":"2008-12-23T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T21:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dog-owner\/why-were-home-for-the-holidays\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T21:45:48","slug":"why-were-home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dog-owner\/why-were-home-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We&#8217;re Home For The Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy used to travel a lot. She has spent Christmas holidays in London (England), Madrid, Edinburgh, Paris, New York and Chicago&#8230;and more. But since 9\/11, she says, she hates to travel. She&#8217;s served her time on planes waiting to be de-iced at O&#8217;Hare. She&#8217;s driven (very nervously) on icy roads. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/airport-snow.gif\" alt=\"airport in snow\" align=\"right\" height=\"194\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s so much to do here,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Symphony. Ballet. Theatre. Movies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dog parks? I give Mom a nudge with my very cold nose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And dog parks,&#8221; she says. Sometimes she reads my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy used to travel a lot. She has spent Christmas holidays in London (England), Madrid, Edinburgh, Paris, New York and Chicago&#8230;and more. But since 9\/11, she says, she hates to travel. She&#8217;s served her time on planes waiting to be de-iced at O&#8217;Hare. She&#8217;s driven (very nervously) on icy roads. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dog-owner\/why-were-home-for-the-holidays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why We&#8217;re Home For The Holidays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,48],"tags":[248,80,234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}