{"id":35,"date":"2009-01-22T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-01-22T09:14:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:14:05","slug":"my-dog-smash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/my-dog-smash\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dog Smash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my-dog-smash.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">My dog Smash<\/a>\u00a0is funny dog.\u00a0 Sometimes he wants to have lots of petting and attention and other times he is aloof and independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the past few nights he has wanted to come in the house for a while and get petted.\u00a0 Then he will go back\u00a0 outside to sleep.\u00a0 It has been very cold, but he still prefers to sleep outside.<\/p>\n<p>He does expect me to walk with him to the creek each morning.\u00a0 It does not matter if it is cold or raining or whatever, when I walk out the door, he runs toward the creek.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t follow, he turns around and pouts.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, since it has been so cold, I have begin cranking my Jeep first and letting it warm up while we walk to the creek.\u00a0 This confuses Smash.<\/p>\n<p>When I go to the Jeep, he gets that sad look and then when I turn around to go to the creek, he hesitates a moment as if questioning whether I am serious or not.<\/p>\n<p>For more stories about Smash see his <a href=\"http:\/\/my-dog-smash.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dog Behavior Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dog Smash\u00a0is funny dog.\u00a0 Sometimes he wants to have lots of petting and attention and other times he is aloof and independent.\u00a0 For the past few nights he has wanted to come in the house for a while and get petted.\u00a0 Then he will go back\u00a0 outside to sleep.\u00a0 It has been very cold, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/my-dog-smash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Dog Smash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[13,517,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}