{"id":2030,"date":"2010-09-27T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2010-09-28T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T05:39:57","slug":"now-this-is-life-in-the-dog-park-spa-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/now-this-is-life-in-the-dog-park-spa-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Now this is life in the dog park: spa treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"dog park\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/sep27lindsaywall.gif\" alt=\"Lindsay gives dog a massage. \" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"375\" height=\"305\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay gives dog the spa treatment. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My mom is relieved. I no longer seem nervous when we go to the dog park, although I go out of my way to avoid certain dogs. A 70-pound dog jumping on me? No thanks. Not at my age. I am almost eight years old and it&#8217;s time for me to settle down, although my jaws will always be ready to take on a chewing challenge.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I like the park is that I get to sit on the wall while people admire me. Lindsay is one of the park regulars. She&#8217;s sitting here giving me a butt rub. See that tiny bundle of fur in her lap? That&#8217;s Ruby, her new puppy. Apparently Ruby is trying to set chewing records in Lindsay&#8217;s home. She chewed up a computer cord, something I&#8217;ve never tried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t even think about it!&#8221; my mom said to me when Lindsay told us the story. &#8220;And it&#8217;s so unfair: I have to pay for my massages! You get yours free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes. That&#8217;s what life should be. A dog park should include spa treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom is relieved. I no longer seem nervous when we go to the dog park, although I go out of my way to avoid certain dogs. A 70-pound dog jumping on me? No thanks. Not at my age. I am almost eight years old and it&#8217;s time for me to settle down, although my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/now-this-is-life-in-the-dog-park-spa-treatment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now this is life in the dog park: spa treatment<\/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\/2030"}],"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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}