{"id":732,"date":"2009-06-01T07:12:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2009-06-20T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T17:44:05","slug":"royalty-its-easier-to-be-a-canine-urban-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/royalty-its-easier-to-be-a-canine-urban-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"Royalty? It&#8217;s easier to be a Canine Urban Princess."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how the Royal Family does it especially the Queen and Princess Anne. They have to wear shoes, hats and skirts.<\/p>\n<p>Me?\u00a0 I am a CUPPIE, a Canine Urban Princess. I don&#8217;t even own a tiara, thank goodness. Occasionally my mom ties a bandanna around my neck. I have to wear my collar and tags because Mom says she doesn&#8217;t want to pay a $75 fine. But otherwise, I get to go barefoot and naked.<\/p>\n<p>When we get home I get to collapse on my bed or my favorite spot on the floor under the coffee table. Mom lets me stay there because she realizes I&#8217;m too tired to chew anything and run up a vet bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe the cats could use a dog fix,&#8221; she suggests with her sarcastic little smile.<\/p>\n<p>No way. I won&#8217;t rise to the bait. I&#8217;d like to give that fat <a href=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/cat-does-not-fit-on-small-cushion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ophelia<\/a> a fix, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s what my mom has in mind. And besides I have to think of my position. We princesses always look calm, smug and superior, even when a cat tries to steal our food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how the Royal Family does it especially the Queen and Princess Anne. They have to wear shoes, hats and skirts. Me?\u00a0 I am a CUPPIE, a Canine Urban Princess. I don&#8217;t even own a tiara, thank goodness. Occasionally my mom ties a bandanna around my neck. I have to wear my collar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/royalty-its-easier-to-be-a-canine-urban-princess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Royalty? It&#8217;s easier to be a Canine Urban Princess.<\/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":[110,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}