{"id":441,"date":"2009-04-05T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-04-06T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:29:56","slug":"dog-likes-baths-yesthis-one-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-likes-baths-yesthis-one-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog likes baths? Yes&#8230;this one does!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my mom took me to to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtowndoglounge.com\">Downtown Dog Lounge<\/a> for playtime and a bath. She went off to the gym and a concert and&#8230;who knows what else? I don&#8217;t care. I want her to enjoy her life so I can enjoy mine.<\/p>\n<p>When Mom came to pick me up, I was just getting the final touches on my coat. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"dog taking bath\" src=\"http:\/\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/dogbath.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"148\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gracie, you look beautiful!&#8221; my mom exclaimed. I wagged my tail. But not too hard. I knew what was coming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was Gracie good today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep. She always asks that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course! you always ask.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This moment is practically scripted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gracie doesn&#8217;t mind her bath,&#8221; they added. &#8220;She holds up her paw so we can cut her nails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course. I&#8217;m a CUPPIE &#8230;a Canine Urban Princess. Of course I get my nails done. And I get a bath and blow dry. It&#8217;s what I deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my mom took me to to the Downtown Dog Lounge for playtime and a bath. She went off to the gym and a concert and&#8230;who knows what else? I don&#8217;t care. I want her to enjoy her life so I can enjoy mine. When Mom came to pick me up, I was just getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-likes-baths-yesthis-one-does\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog likes baths? Yes&#8230;this one does!<\/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\/441"}],"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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}