{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-08T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/uncategorized\/how-i-got-my-name\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T05:28:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T05:28:20","slug":"how-i-got-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/how-i-got-here\/how-i-got-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Got My Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Cathy saw me on the Petfinder website, my name was Sarah. She has a human friend in Tucson named Sarah. And frankly, I don&#8217;t look like a Sarah. So she immediately named me Gracie.<\/p>\n<p>I am named after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/076111937X\/themovinglady-20\" title=\"Amazing Gracie\">Amazing Gracie<\/a>, a book by Dan Dye, the founder of Three Dog Bakery.            When their dog refused to eat commercial food, Dan Dye and his           friends learned to cook a new kind of dog biscuit &#8212; and created           an empire.  Cathy loved the book &#8212; a warmly satisfying saga of dogs, serendipity and life success. And she loves the stores.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gracie,&#8221; she tells me, &#8220;you are named after a dog who made her owner a millionaire. And I expect you to live up to your name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of pressure to put on a dog. Here&#8217;s a photo of me, obviously stressed out by all that pressure.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movinglady.com\/images\/dogsleepvsm.jpg\" alt=\"gracie the dog asleep\" align=\"right\" height=\"187\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Cathy saw me on the Petfinder website, my name was Sarah. She has a human friend in Tucson named Sarah. And frankly, I don&#8217;t look like a Sarah. So she immediately named me Gracie. I am named after Amazing Gracie, a book by Dan Dye, the founder of Three Dog Bakery. When their dog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/how-i-got-here\/how-i-got-my-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Got My Name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,10],"tags":[85,88,87,86,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}