{"id":725,"date":"2010-12-09T01:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog1\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-12-09T01:57:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:57:51","slug":"a-dog-named-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/a-dog-named-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dog Named Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20101209-012451.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-730 alignleft\" title=\"20101209-012451.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20101209-012451.jpg?resize=224%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> Joey came to us in the way most stray dogs probably end up with a home: someone tells their husband they just <strong>HAVE<\/strong> to pick up this <strong>REALLY CUTE<\/strong> dog who <strong>JUST NEEDS A FRIEND<\/strong>. Never mind the fact that we have two adorable kittens and this stray dog just so happens to be a pit bull.<\/p>\n<p>And so Joe and I endure the looks we get as we walk to the park, and watch people cross the street while we work on leash manners. I wake up to barking promptly at 6 am to let him out to pee. We attend a pit bull education class, and field questions from friends and strangers about how Pete and I don&#8217;t look like pit bull people.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that animals (and people) come into your life for a reason, even if it&#8217;s just for a little while. We may not be Joey&#8217;s forever home, but he is with us now. We are saving each other, Joey and I. I am giving him the best care and love I know how, and he is very insistent that I wake up to take him out each morning. It seems like a small thing, but it&#8217;s everything right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey came to us in the way most stray dogs probably end up with a home: someone tells their husband they just HAVE to pick up this REALLY CUTE dog who JUST NEEDS A FRIEND.<\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joey","category-life","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DIlZ-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}