{"id":492,"date":"2009-04-13T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-04-13T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:44:46","slug":"downtown-dog-lounge-they-appreciate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/downtown-dog-lounge-they-appreciate-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Dog Lounge: they appreciate me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday mornings my mom goes off to the gym for her workout. She used to do sculpt class and now she tells me she does Elliptical, machines and Pilates. As a dog, I have no idea what she&#8217;s doing. It all sounds so weird. Why can&#8217;t humans just chase tennis balls for exercise?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"gracie at downtown dog lounge\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/graciesummercouch.gif\" alt=\"Getting a tummy rub from Big Sister Summer at the Dog Lounge\" width=\"250\" height=\"174\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting a tummy rub from Big Sister Summer at the Dog Lounge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t care. While she works out I get to chill out at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtowndoglounge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Dog Lounge<\/a> with Summer, who&#8217;s like my Big Sister. See,\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting a family: my Mom, the pack leader; my mysterious Uncle Lance, who refuses to have his picture taken with us; my Aunt Sara, who takes me to the dog park twice a week; and Summer, my Big Sister.<\/p>\n<p>Summer is looking up at the camera and I&#8217;m telling her, &#8220;Ignore the camera. Mom&#8217;s going to exercise class. I want a tummy rub.&#8221; My mom Cathy took several pictures but only this one came out. In the other ones, I was wriggling with joy and all you can see is a blurry brown shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday mornings my mom goes off to the gym for her workout. She used to do sculpt class and now she tells me she does Elliptical, machines and Pilates. As a dog, I have no idea what she&#8217;s doing. It all sounds so weird. Why can&#8217;t humans just chase tennis balls for exercise? But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/downtown-dog-lounge-they-appreciate-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Downtown Dog Lounge: they appreciate me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,27],"tags":[245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}