{"id":274,"date":"2006-03-02T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=274"},"modified":"2006-03-02T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T15:54:10","slug":"the-dog-whisperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/03\/02\/the-dog-whisperer\/","title":{"rendered":"The dog whisperer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbors two doors down got a dog from the pound a couple months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 His name is Sampson.\u00c2\u00a0 Like a lot of dogs with neglect in their past, Sampson starts barking steadily if he&#8217;s left outside too long.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s part Rottweiler and part something else, so he has a fairly substantial bark.<\/p>\n<p>Which is good, because Ava loves it when he starts barking.\u00c2\u00a0 Her eyes get big as soon as she hears him, and she turns to me and starts saying, &#8220;Dog!\u00c2\u00a0 Dog!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it sounds more like &#8220;Doc!,&#8221; but it&#8217;s close enough.<\/p>\n<p>Leah&#8217;s upped the ante by explaining to Ava that Sampson barks because he wants to come inside and eat.\u00c2\u00a0 So now, when the barking starts, Ava puts her fingers to her mouth and says, &#8220;Dog!\u00c2\u00a0 Eat!\u00c2\u00a0 Dog!\u00c2\u00a0 Eat!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 An added benefit to what is already a very cute display is that we can often get Ava to eat something at this point by telling her the dog is eating too.\u00c2\u00a0 Anything to get some food into her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbors two doors down got a dog from the pound a couple months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 His name is Sampson.\u00c2\u00a0 Like a lot of dogs with neglect in their past, Sampson starts barking steadily if he&#8217;s left outside too long.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s part Rottweiler and part something else, so he has a fairly substantial bark. Which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-4q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}