{"id":2210,"date":"2011-01-12T07:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2011-01-12T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:55:05","slug":"meeting-an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/meeting-an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting an old friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/graciewitholdfriend.gif\" title=\"dog and friend\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"8\" \/>A few days ago we were walking to the park when we heard someone calling us: &#8220;Gracie! How are you? You look great!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course i look great. Why wouldn&#8217;t I? <\/p>\n<p>It was our old friend Cynthia, from the old Downtown Dog Lounge on Bell Street. We loved going there. They always fussed over me. I never had to hang out in the pen with the other dogs; I was the assistant receptionist and my photo was on the wall as a staff member. Then the place closed.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia was one of the managers. Now she has another job and she&#8217;s probably doing well. But she remembers when Cathy first adopted me. &#8220;Gracie is so much more confident,&#8221; she said, giving me a scratch in that special spot on my tummy. That feels SO good. Can you tell I was thrilled to see Cynthia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we were walking to the park when we heard someone calling us: &#8220;Gracie! How are you? You look great!&#8221; Of course i look great. Why wouldn&#8217;t I? It was our old friend Cynthia, from the old Downtown Dog Lounge on Bell Street. We loved going there. They always fussed over me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/meeting-an-old-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meeting an old friend<\/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],"tags":[110,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}