{"id":750,"date":"2020-11-02T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=750"},"modified":"2020-11-02T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:24:48","slug":"no-dogs-on-the-sofa-and-for-gods-sake-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/11\/02\/no-dogs-on-the-sofa-and-for-gods-sake-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"No Dogs on the Sofa! And for God&#8217;s Sake, Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one firm rule we have in this house, it\u2019s that the dogs are <em>not<\/em> allowed on the sofa unless specifically invited. How, then, to explain this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/No-dogs-on-sofa-Jack_sm_20201028.jpg\" alt=\"No dogs on sofa, Jack!\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/No-dogs-on-sofa-Duff_sm_20201028.jpg\" alt=\"No dogs on sofa, Duff!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, no squirrels are allowed on the porch!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Squirrel-one-pumkin-zerosm_20201028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you wonder, I\u2019m an emotional tightwire (like many of you), waiting to find out what\u2019s going to happen on\u00a0 U.S. election day\u2014or, more likely, several weeks after election day. Will we step back from the precipice we&#8217;re dancing on? Will we put responsible adults in charge in Washington? <em>Before<\/em> we all die of Covid or drown in the melting ice caps? Will we save our democracy from our worst impulses?<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t stand the wait, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re getting dog pictures on the day before the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one firm rule we have in this house, it\u2019s that the dogs are not allowed on the sofa unless specifically invited. How, then, to explain this: And this: Also, no squirrels are allowed on the porch! In case you wonder, I\u2019m an emotional tightwire (like many of you), waiting to find out what\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-pets","category-rants","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}