{"id":489,"date":"2009-04-12T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-04-12T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:59:51","slug":"first-dog-gets-first-bowl-gimme-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/first-dog-gets-first-bowl-gimme-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"First Dog gets First Bowl? Gimme a break&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom was checking\u00a0 Twitter when she found this story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/doghealth1.com\/2009\/04\/presidential-dog-bowl-gifts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dog Bowl<\/a>, tweeted by @Teriss.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the Czech president gave the dog some dishes so Bo can eat with pride from special china with the White House seal.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I get. I have a plastic two-sided bowl, with water and food served together. I guess I should be grateful to have a bowl at all. The cats eat off paper plates.<\/p>\n<p>What will the First Toy be? Forget politics, Bo. Train your owners to get you a kong toy. Maybe ex-Prez Jimmy Carter will donate some peanut butter. That&#8217;s the way to my heart, anyway. I only get the good stuff when I&#8217;m in my crate, out of the way while Mom talks on the phone. She talks a lot and it gets so boring I chew socks, pencils and even ball point pens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate interrupting my calls to yell, &#8216;No! Put that @&amp;#@!\u00a0 down,&#8221; Mom says. &#8220;And you know how I feel about swearing around my clients. So&#8230;into the crate you go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently loud slurping sounds don&#8217;t bother anybody. Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom was checking\u00a0 Twitter when she found this story about the Dog Bowl, tweeted by @Teriss. Apparently the Czech president gave the dog some dishes so Bo can eat with pride from special china with the White House seal. Here&#8217;s what I get. I have a plastic two-sided bowl, with water and food served &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/first-dog-gets-first-bowl-gimme-a-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Dog gets First Bowl? Gimme a break&#8230;<\/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\/489"}],"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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}