{"id":722,"date":"2009-05-30T06:50:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2009-05-29T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:51:09","slug":"memo-to-michelle-obama-dog-not-crazy-just-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/memo-to-michelle-obama-dog-not-crazy-just-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Michelle Obama: Dog not crazy, just young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama described the First Dog as &#8220;crazy.&#8221; Apparently Bo, the Portuguese Water Dog, likes to chew on people&#8217;s feet, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/23\/michelle-obama-bo-is-a-cr_n_190618.html\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One night Bo woke the president and First Lady at 10 AM, playing with his ball. Michelle said they thought they heard a person out in the hallway, but there was Bo.<\/p>\n<p>See, they didn&#8217;t listen to me. When my mom read stories of Obama&#8217;s new dog, I said they should get an adult dog, preferably a rescue mutt like me. Puppies are a nuisance. They never stop playing. I&#8217;m much more restrained. I go out with my Aunt Sara twice a week and the rest of time time I am happy to sleep on the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I&#8217;m getting on in years. &#8220;You&#8217;ll be seven in October,&#8221; my mom keeps reminding me. &#8220;That&#8217;s getting into the senior dog category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t remind me, mom. Pretty soon you&#8217;ll be getting the senior discount when we ride the Metro bus system together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama described the First Dog as &#8220;crazy.&#8221; Apparently Bo, the Portuguese Water Dog, likes to chew on people&#8217;s feet, according to this story. One night Bo woke the president and First Lady at 10 AM, playing with his ball. Michelle said they thought they heard a person out in the hallway, but there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/memo-to-michelle-obama-dog-not-crazy-just-young\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memo to Michelle Obama: Dog not crazy, just young<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,235],"tags":[243,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}