{"id":2100,"date":"2010-11-23T07:14:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2010-11-21T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T21:15:03","slug":"an-only-in-seattle-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/an-only-in-seattle-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"An &#8220;Only In Seattle&#8221; Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom was wandering around downtown without me, which means she&#8217;s liable to stumble across things she won&#8217;t notice when I&#8217;m there. I demand complete attention. Otherwise I nibble whatever&#8217;s on the sidewalk, jump on friendly people walking by and fulfill my mission to rid the world of motorcycles and skateboards.<\/p>\n<p>My mom took a photo of this sign. She says she can relate as tourists are always getting lost.  It&#8217;s an indie coffee shop called Monorail Espresso. So naturally tourists ask directions to Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not surprised. From my vantage point on my mom&#8217;s lap, I&#8217;ve watched tourists ask bus drivers for all sorts of things while we natives wait patiently to get where we&#8217;re going. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/directionsmenu.gif\" title=\"Seattle tourists \" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"252\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom was wandering around downtown without me, which means she&#8217;s liable to stumble across things she won&#8217;t notice when I&#8217;m there. I demand complete attention. Otherwise I nibble whatever&#8217;s on the sidewalk, jump on friendly people walking by and fulfill my mission to rid the world of motorcycles and skateboards. My mom took a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/an-only-in-seattle-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An &#8220;Only In Seattle&#8221; Moment<\/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\/2100"}],"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=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}