{"id":1828,"date":"2010-05-15T13:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:15:37","slug":"another-trip-to-the-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/another-trip-to-the-vet\/","title":{"rendered":"Another trip to the vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Chloe the Receptionist at Urban Vet Recognizing My Royal Qualities\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/graciewithvetrecep.gif\" title=\"dog at the vet\" width=\"200\" height=\"268\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"15\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recetionist at Urban Vet Recognizing My Royal Qualities<\/figcaption><\/figure>Good grief&#8230;my mom&#8217;s been a little slow. For the last few days I&#8217;ve been under the weather. We won&#8217;t go into the details (my mom has declared certain topics off limits) but let&#8217;s just say, I woke her up a few times in the middle of the night so I could Do My Business.<\/p>\n<p>After a few days on the rice diet, I was a very hungry dog. Fortunately my Aunt Sara, who escorts me to Magnuson Park twice a week, said, &#8220;Maybe Gracie has giardia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My mom trusts Aunt Sara so off we went to the vet. Here the receptionist is persuading me to step on the scale. When it comes to weight, my mom and I share the same views: who cares as long as we&#8217;re fit and fabulous?<\/p>\n<p>I tested negative for giardia and parasites, thank goodness. The vet today, that nice Dr. Angel, told me I was a beautiful dog. Then she gave my mom some special food and a bottle of antibiotics. I felt better already.<\/p>\n<p>My mom almost needed medical attention when she got the bill. I have to be on good behavior for a few more days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief&#8230;my mom&#8217;s been a little slow. For the last few days I&#8217;ve been under the weather. We won&#8217;t go into the details (my mom has declared certain topics off limits) but let&#8217;s just say, I woke her up a few times in the middle of the night so I could Do My Business. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/another-trip-to-the-vet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another trip to the vet<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}