{"id":615,"date":"2009-03-28T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=615"},"modified":"2009-03-28T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:46:13","slug":"jades-12th-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Jade&#8217;s 12th spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to resist pet postings.  But sometimes I break down.  Both our dogs are getting long in the tooth.  <\/p>\n<p>For 12 springs now, Jade &#8212; our lab\/border collie mix &#8212; has been a constant (and sometime annoying) companion in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I typically see her, with ball (or more often Norway spruce cone) in mouth, ready to play.  If I ignore her, she throws the toy in the garden cart, a bucket, or the hole Im digging and bark until I pick it up an throw it &#8212; only to repeat the whole process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/jade20092x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/jade20092x500.jpg\" alt=\"jade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She still likes being outside, but her persistence is waning.  After a toss or two, she gives me the look:  Do I have to initiate the whole play thing?  Will you think less of me?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/jade20091x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/jade20091x500.jpg\" alt=\"jade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then she&#8217;ll lie down and watch me work.  NIce company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/jade2009x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/jade2009x500.jpg\" alt=\"jade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to resist pet postings. But sometimes I break down. Both our dogs are getting long in the tooth. For 12 springs now, Jade &#8212; our lab\/border collie mix &#8212; has been a constant (and sometime annoying) companion in the garden. This is how I typically see her, with ball (or more often Norway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jade&#8217;s 12th spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}