{"id":6209,"date":"2018-01-27T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2018-01-27T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:56:12","slug":"a-week-for-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"A week for dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run 6.7 miles in Starkville]<\/p>\n<p>I made my way home from Colorado on Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0 The wife had scanned the world for what kind of dog she wanted next and settled on a place in Arkansas that produced big dogs.\u00a0 Lo and behold, I just happened to be driving through Arkansas.\u00a0 So now we have a big dog&#8230;\u00a0 really big.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I attempted to slow this process down hoping for maybe a week of interim no-dog time.\u00a0 But it seemed kind of silly to have her drive back to Arkansas in a week or two which she was determined to do.\u00a0 So I volunteered to stop in and see the dog.\u00a0 And the dog rode on home with me.<\/p>\n<p>The dog looks like a lion.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the color of a lion and that big head, small body look.\u00a0 It&#8217;s head is\u00a0 bigger around than it&#8217;s waist.\u00a0 Well&#8230;. maybe not quite.\u00a0 It is a retired momma from a breeder of mastiffs.\u00a0 All I know is that she put up with the trip OK and we&#8217;ve been getting along OK at home.\u00a0 The cat is not so sure he likes having a XXL dog in the house but the last dog was XL so he isn&#8217;t completely awed either.<\/p>\n<p>I had to do some serious vacuuming of the back seat of the rental car before I returned it.\u00a0 She is a bit slobbery and she shed quite a bit, probably accelerated because of nervousness<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=6210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/27072304_1571364126317051_3121929522131382475_n-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/27072304_1571364126317051_3121929522131382475_n-700x394.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/27072304_1571364126317051_3121929522131382475_n-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/27072304_1571364126317051_3121929522131382475_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run 6.7 miles in Starkville] I made my way home from Colorado on Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0 The wife had scanned the world for what kind of dog she wanted next and settled on a place in Arkansas that produced big dogs.\u00a0 Lo and behold, I just happened to be driving through Arkansas.\u00a0 So now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}