{"id":4,"date":"2008-03-07T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/how-i-got-here\/introducing-gracie-the-rescue-mutt\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T22:16:36","slug":"introducing-gracie-the-rescue-mutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/how-i-got-here\/introducing-gracie-the-rescue-mutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Gracie the Rescue Mutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello World,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Gracie, a\/k\/a Amazing Gracie, a\/k\/a Princes Gracie.<\/p>\n<p>I live in an apartment in Seattle with my mom, Cathy, and two cats. Cathy adopted me on January 2, 2006. I was hanging out in a foster home in Whatcom County,  living the rural life of a country dog.  One day my foster mom loaded me into a car and I found myself heading south to the Big City of Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I saw Cathy&#8217;s apartment, I knew I&#8217;d struck gold. Cathy&#8217;s living room has two cat beds and a huge dog crate. She doesn&#8217;t care about having nice furniture &#8211; just presentable in the style of Aging Graduate Student. This was going to be great. I picked out &#8220;my&#8221; corner of the couch on the first day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gracie, you sleep here,&#8221; Cathy said the first night, pointing to the crate. She tossed in a big rubber kong toy with peanut butter. It was heaven.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No dogs on the bed,&#8221; Cathy said firmly. &#8220;No dogs on the sofa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I just smiled and smacked my lips on the peanut butter.\u00a0 I could tell: Cathy would be easy to train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello World, My name is Gracie, a\/k\/a Amazing Gracie, a\/k\/a Princes Gracie. I live in an apartment in Seattle with my mom, Cathy, and two cats. Cathy adopted me on January 2, 2006. I was hanging out in a foster home in Whatcom County, living the rural life of a country dog. One day my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/how-i-got-here\/introducing-gracie-the-rescue-mutt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introducing Gracie the Rescue Mutt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"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=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}