{"id":357,"date":"2009-03-10T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-03-10T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T04:30:57","slug":"spring-is-coming-and-not-a-moment-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/spring-is-coming-and-not-a-moment-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is coming (and not a moment too soon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom and I are both ready for winter to be over. Mom was sure she had put away her big parka\u00a0 for the last time, but no: yesterday was really cold. We walked to the UPS store to pick up some packages. On the way back, we found ourselves in a snowstorm. My muzzle was covered with fat, white flakes. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"spring in Seattle\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/crocuses.gif\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"15\" width=\"240\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But my mom keeps pointing to signs of spring. On our morning walk, she said, &#8220;Gracie, look &#8212; crocuses! First sign of spring!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She tried to get me to go over and sniff them. &#8220;It would be a great photo op,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>But why would I want to sniff flowers? That&#8217;s what cats do. I could care less. So here I am sniffing an old potato chip wrapper. Maybe I&#8217;ll find a five-year-old chicken bone. Much more interesting. Who&#8217;s going to eat a crocus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom and I are both ready for winter to be over. Mom was sure she had put away her big parka\u00a0 for the last time, but no: yesterday was really cold. We walked to the UPS store to pick up some packages. On the way back, we found ourselves in a snowstorm. My muzzle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/spring-is-coming-and-not-a-moment-too-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring is coming (and not a moment too soon)<\/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":[115,241,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}