{"id":2001,"date":"2010-09-11T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2010-09-12T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:29:27","slug":"a-tired-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/a-tired-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A tired dog&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/sep11gracieexhausted.jpg\" title=\"city dog exhausted\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" hspace=\"10\" vpsace=\"10\" \/>My mom says, &#8220;A tired dog is a good dog, but I&#8217;m not sure an exhausted dog is a <em>great<\/em> dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I played in the big park with my Aunt Sara and today I&#8217;m into big sleeping. My mom dragged me to the local downtown park. She&#8217;s still trying to get me to enjoy going there. The good part is, she kept giving me treats. Lots of treats! Eventually, though, she realized I wasn&#8217;t going to play. So she took me for a walk. And now I&#8217;m back on the cushion again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to be tired, Gracie,&#8221; the mom said, preparing to head off for bed herself. Tomorrow you&#8217;ve got lots of time alone in the crate. I&#8217;m off to Game 1 of the WNBA championship series, but first I&#8217;d like to join at least part of the Zumba class.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the mom for you: dedicated as ever. I&#8217;m even more tired just thinking about her bopping around at Zumba. Frankly, a little crate time might not be a bad thing. Besides, if her team wins, she&#8217;ll be in a terrific mood. We know what that means, don&#8217;t we? More treats! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom says, &#8220;A tired dog is a good dog, but I&#8217;m not sure an exhausted dog is a great dog.&#8221; Yesterday I played in the big park with my Aunt Sara and today I&#8217;m into big sleeping. My mom dragged me to the local downtown park. She&#8217;s still trying to get me to enjoy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/a-tired-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A tired dog&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001"}],"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=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}