{"id":1372,"date":"2011-04-30T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2013-04-20T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T23:16:21","slug":"looking-for-a-new-family-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2011\/04\/30\/looking-for-a-new-family-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a new family pet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/embed?video_id=2146710625998\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It has been a little over a year since our cat passed away from old age, and <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2010\/07\/23\/they-really-want-a-dog\/\">as I mentioned in a previous post<\/a>, the family is lobbying hard for a new family pet. The wife and kids want a dog but I am very hesitant. Of course this means that they are trying to make me out to be the bad guy because I refuse to budge on this issue. I love dogs and have wanted one since I was a little boy, but I am also well aware that canines are far more &#8220;high maintenance&#8221; than cats. No matter how much they tell me that they will take care of the dog, I know that I will be the one picking up poop with one of those little plastic bags at 6am in the morning. Not gonna happen. To quote the infamous Tony Montana, &#8220;say hello to &#8216;da bad guy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a little over a year since our cat passed away from old age, and as I mentioned in a previous post, the family is lobbying hard for a new family pet. The wife and kids now want a dog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}