{"id":2540,"date":"2012-10-16T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T02:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2012-10-16T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T02:48:55","slug":"pumpkin-is-a-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/pumpkin-is-a-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin is &#8230; a pumpkin`"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom has gotten much better at choosing names for her family. She&#8217;s come a long way from naming a cat Kitty, as she once did. She didn&#8217;t change Keesha&#8217;s name becuase it fit &#8211; Keesha was a keeshond mix. She tried to change Ophelia&#8217;s name when she took Ophelia to the vet for her &#8220;new cat&#8221; checkup. The vet&#8217;s staff was horrified when Mom wanted to call her &#8220;Furball.&#8221; Later we were all glad; Ophelia was &#8230; well, Ophelia.  <\/p>\n<p>I am named after the Great Dane owned by Dan Dye, cofounder of Three Dog Bakery. That dog made her owner rich, my mom reminds me. So far I&#8217;ve just brought her vet bills.<\/p>\n<p>But she outdid herself when she named Pumpkin. Just look at these photos.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkincat.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkincat.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"pumpkincat\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2541\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkin.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkin.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"pumpkin\" width=\"128\" height=\"126\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2542\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom has gotten much better at choosing names for her family. She&#8217;s come a long way from naming a cat Kitty, as she once did. She didn&#8217;t change Keesha&#8217;s name becuase it fit &#8211; Keesha was a keeshond mix. She tried to change Ophelia&#8217;s name when she took Ophelia to the vet for her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/pumpkin-is-a-pumpkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pumpkin is &#8230; a pumpkin`<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,84],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540"}],"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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}