{"id":8567,"date":"2011-12-26T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2011-12-26T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:24:48","slug":"the-best-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8567","title":{"rendered":"The Best Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember me telling you about the tangled history of Maxie, our <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8394\">newly-adopted dachshund<\/a>?\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been worried that Lauren, Lorrie&#8217;s daughter &#8230; and Maxie&#8217;s most recent owner &#8230; might want her puppy back some day, and no wonder &#8230; the dog is absolutely loveable, and who wouldn&#8217;t want her back?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8568\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-25-11_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8568\" title=\"Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-25-11_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-25-11_1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-25-11_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-25-11_1-337x450.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna with Schatzi &amp; Maxie, Christmas morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So yesterday we went to Christmas dinner at Lorrie&#8217;s, and Lauren was there.\u00a0 We were going to talk to Lauren about our desire to permanently adopt Maxie, but she approached us first, handing us a hand-printed scroll.\u00a0 We unrolled it, and this is what it said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I, Lauren _______, hereby annoint Paul &amp; Donna as official owners of Maxie the wiener dog.\u00a0 May you continue to bless her with the love and affection she deserves.<br \/>\nDecember 25, 2011<br \/>\nMerry Christmas!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Merry Christmas indeed.\u00a0 Bless you, Lauren &#8230; we know that wasn&#8217;t easy for you, and we promise to give Maxie the best life we know how.\u00a0 We are so happy.\u00a0 And so is Schatzi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember me telling you about the tangled history of Maxie, our newly-adopted dachshund?\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been worried that Lauren, Lorrie&#8217;s daughter &#8230; and Maxie&#8217;s most recent owner &#8230; might want her puppy back some day, and no wonder &#8230; the dog is absolutely loveable, and who wouldn&#8217;t want her back? So yesterday we went to Christmas [&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":[472,436,435,356],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-personal","tag-christmas","tag-dachshund","tag-maxie","tag-schatzi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","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=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}