{"id":2921,"date":"2004-11-01T00:39:45","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/01\/puppy-playtime\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:38:52","slug":"puppy-playtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/01\/puppy-playtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy playtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/1191297\/\" title=\"At the dog park, Seattle, WA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1\/1191297_d5a793c0bd_n.jpg\" alt=\"At the dog park, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon, Prairie and I went over to visit Prairie&#8217;s sister and her boyfriend to visit, celebrate Prairie&#8217;s birthday, and visit their new puppy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/1191289\/\" title=\"At the dog park, Seattle, WA\">Loodie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We ended up heading out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofseattle.net\/parks\/magnuson\/\" title=\"Warren G. Magnuson Park\">Magnuson Park<\/a> and letting Loodie romp around at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofseattle.net\/parks\/magnuson\/ola.htm\" title=\"Warren G. Magnuson Park Dog Off-Leash Area\">dog off-leash area<\/a> at the park, a huge (nine acre) fenced-in area for dogs to run wild and play.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve never been a huge dog person &#8212; much more of a cat person, in fact &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to admit that the day was a lot of fun. Loodie&#8217;s a really cute puppy, and she found quite a few friends to roughhouse with.<\/p>\n<p>On our way back towards the car, this golden retriever decided that it wanted to be my friend (to the point of nearly knocking me over a couple of times). Prairie grabbed the camera, and these pictures stand as evidence that while dogs may not be my favorite critters on the planet&#8230;well, they&#8217;re not <em>all<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday afternoon, Prairie and I went over to visit Prairie&#8217;s sister and her boyfriend to visit, celebrate Prairie&#8217;s birthday, and visit their new puppy, Loodie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}