{"id":2114,"date":"2009-05-27T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2009-05-28T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T18:18:29","slug":"the-good-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"The Good Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were loading the car for our Las Vegas trip last Thursday morning, I asked Schatzi if she was ready to go (we&#8217;d always planned to bring her along, but hadn&#8217;t told her until then).  She perked up, ran outside, relieved herself, and jumped into the car.  Throughout two all-day drives, throughout four days and five nights in strange houses, she was the very model of grown-up rectitude and responsibility.  We&#8217;d say &#8220;do your business here&#8221; and she&#8217;d do it there, every time.  We&#8217;d say &#8220;leave it&#8221; or &#8220;stay&#8221; and she&#8217;d leave it and stay like a good &#8216;un.\u00a0 She charmed the socks off everyone, and except for one momentary lapse in judgment when she leapt onto the dining room table at our son&#8217;s house, she was Good Citizen Schatzi all the way.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2115\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-25-09_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2115\" title=\"click for larger\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-25-09_3.jpg\" alt=\"Schatzi\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-25-09_3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-25-09_3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The car?  It&#39;s my favorite place!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2116\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-24-09_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2116\" title=\"click for larger\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-24-09_5.jpg\" alt=\"Schatzi &amp; Paul in Las Vegas\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-24-09_5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-24-09_5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, that and Dad&#39;s lap!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schatzi, Donna and I are very proud of you.\u00a0 Good girl.\u00a0 Good girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were loading the car for our Las Vegas trip last Thursday morning, I asked Schatzi if she was ready to go (we&#8217;d always planned to bring her along, but hadn&#8217;t told her until then). She perked up, ran outside, relieved herself, and jumped into the car. Throughout two all-day drives, throughout four days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}