{"id":1765,"date":"2010-04-19T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:19:06","slug":"dog-grooming-goes-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-grooming-goes-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Grooming Goes Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom just showed me this article from today&#8217;s New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/19\/sports\/19grooming.html?src=me&#038;ref=general\">Where Creativity Wags Its Tail<\/a>. Apparently there&#8217;s a contest to sculpt dogs fur into images&#8230;anything from a person to a dragon. <\/p>\n<p>As a certified dog, I say, &#8220;Forget about it! No way!&#8221; My mom takes me to a groomer to get a bath and brushup. Period. No funny stuff in <em>my <\/em>fur. And I&#8217;ll keep the color I was born with, thank you very much. <\/p>\n<p>According to these groomers, the dogs love all the attention. True. I love attention myself. When we go to the dog park, I always go over to people and ask for a rub or a hug. But stand still while somebody clips me? Getting dyed green or blue or yellow?<\/p>\n<p>Not for me. Fortunately my mom is big on &#8220;simple and easy.&#8221; And we both value our nap time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom just showed me this article from today&#8217;s New York Times: Where Creativity Wags Its Tail. Apparently there&#8217;s a contest to sculpt dogs fur into images&#8230;anything from a person to a dragon. As a certified dog, I say, &#8220;Forget about it! No way!&#8221; My mom takes me to a groomer to get a bath &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-grooming-goes-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Grooming Goes Wild<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,235,27],"tags":[110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}