{"id":874,"date":"2009-07-31T06:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T04:56:04","slug":"adopted-dog-in-new-york-gets-warm-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/adopted-dog-in-new-york-gets-warm-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted Dog in New York Gets Warm Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom has a friend named Bill who lives in New York. They’ve only met once or twice bu\"\"t they talk on the phone a lot. <\/p>\n

Bill has lived with dogs all his life so he has become my mom’s advisor on dog care. I wish she’d listen more. My mom cuts my rations when the vet or the dog walker says, “Gracie’s getting a little chunky around the middle.” <\/p>\n

Bill would just laugh. His dogs get LOTS of treats. They get lots of company because Bill works at home two or three days a week. They share his blueberry muffins. They get visits to the doggie cardiologist, doggie neurologist, doggie ophthalmologist and (I suspect) doggie psychiatrist. <\/p>\n

My mom says if she dies unexpectedly, I can go live with Bill if Summer doesn’t take me. I’m not complaining, even though Bill says, “I really like big fuzzy dogs.” From a certain angle, with enough treats in sight, I can look big and fuzzy. <\/p>\n

Bill adopts elderly golden retrievers. He just adopted Murray, a 9-year-old who was pulled out of a shelter by a retriever rescue group. Murray joins another golden retriever of the same age. Murray’s settling in fine. Who wouldn’t? Bill’s house is Dog Heaven. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom has a friend named Bill who lives in New York. They’ve only met once or twice but they talk on the phone a lot. Bill has lived with dogs all his life so he has become my mom’s advisor on dog care. I wish she’d listen more. My mom cuts my rations when … Continue reading Adopted Dog in New York Gets Warm Welcome<\/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],"tags":[160,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}