{"id":78,"date":"2008-05-25T20:05:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-and-owner-go-to-the-folk-festival-with-mixed-feelings\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:06:02","slug":"dog-and-owner-go-to-the-folk-festival-with-mixed-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-and-owner-go-to-the-folk-festival-with-mixed-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog and Owner go to the Folk Festival (with mixed feelings)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening my mom Cathy decided we should go to the Folk Festival for my evening walk. We&#8217;re just ten minutes away, by foot and paw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should take advantage of Seattle,&#8221; Cathy said.<\/p>\n<p>Good! I love festivals:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/follkdance.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/folkdance.gif\" alt=\"seattle folk festival\" align=\"right\" height=\"250\" hspace=\"7\" vspace=\"7\" width=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots and lots of people (so I get tons of attention &#8211; one total stranger gave me a full-body massage)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of food on the ground so I can nibble my way through the park<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to steal food from somebody who&#8217;s balancing a paper plate and a drink on the grass<\/li>\n<li>Lots of dogs (so I can jump up and say hello).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mom hates festivals because<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots and lots of people (she gets claustrophobic in crowds)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of food on the ground (her arm hurts from pulling me away from a limitless supply of snacks).<\/li>\n<li>No place to eat (balancing a dripping plate while sitting on the itchy grass isn&#8217;t her idea of a dream meal)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of dogs (because most of them don&#8217;t want to play and they get nervous when I jump up to greet them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Well, let&#8217;s check out the music,&#8221; Mom said bravely, steering us to one of the stages.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, she concluded, Arlo Guthrie is the only folk singer she wants to hear these days, preferably from a comfy seat in Benaroya Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening my mom Cathy decided we should go to the Folk Festival for my evening walk. We&#8217;re just ten minutes away, by foot and paw. &#8220;We should take advantage of Seattle,&#8221; Cathy said. Good! I love festivals: Lots and lots of people (so I get tons of attention &#8211; one total stranger gave me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dog-and-owner-go-to-the-folk-festival-with-mixed-feelings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog and Owner go to the Folk Festival (with mixed feelings)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}