{"id":114685,"date":"2022-06-25T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114685"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:35:00","slug":"dogspeak-10-sage-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dogspeak-10-sage-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"DogSpeak #10  Sage Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #10 Sage Advice<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves us \u2013<br \/>\nwiggle butts, lolling tongues<br \/>\nlapping water in all directions,<br \/>\nsilky fur begging to be petted,<br \/>\ngleeful joy at meeting<br \/>\na stranger because we know<br \/>\nhow to make friends.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves a cute puppy<br \/>\nwith cutsie poopsies<br \/>\nand flippy floppy ears;<br \/>\neven though they don\u2019t<br \/>\nunderstand sit\/stay\/come,<br \/>\nthey know the secret<br \/>\nto sociable\/acceptable behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Humans cannot master it,<br \/>\ntoo proud to wag their tail<br \/>\nand not their tongue, spouting<br \/>\nopinions as if they weren\u2019t like<br \/>\ndiapers \u2013 full of crap and in need<br \/>\nof frequent changing.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind cats could care less<br \/>\nabout what you think about celebs,<br \/>\ncurrent events, political manure,<br \/>\neven what kind of litter works best;<br \/>\njust attend to them like royalty.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs mind everything<br \/>\nand everyone\u2019s business; we want<br \/>\nthe world to love us and if you<br \/>\ndecide not to, we will hound you<br \/>\n(no pun intended) until you decide<br \/>\nwe are to be friended.<\/p>\n<p>Learn from us, we are zen.<br \/>\nWhen tempted to shout out<br \/>\nsharing a piece of your mind<br \/>\nabout anything that may make<br \/>\nsomeone uncomfortable\/unhappy\/<br \/>\nungentle, keep your muzzle shut.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #10 Sage Advice Everyone loves us \u2013 wiggle butts, lolling tongues lapping water in all directions, silky fur begging to be petted, gleeful joy at meeting a stranger because we know how to make friends. Everyone loves a cute puppy with cutsie poopsies and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114691,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114685\/revisions\/114691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}