{"id":459,"date":"2005-06-25T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2005-06-25T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T22:22:00","slug":"459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The smell of fatherhood<\/strong><\/p>\n

A week ago, M. and I were at a festival in northern Colorado. We put the two big dogs in a boarding kennel, but we brought Susie, who used to be my dad’s dog. She was a basset hound-something mix, she was dying of cancer at age 13, and this, frankly, was her last outing. <\/p>\n

Susie spent most of three days lying on a folded blanket in the shade of some small Douglas firs, but on the first afternoon, she tottered after us on a visit to a friend’s campsite. When she got there, she lay down by my friend’s chair.<\/p>\n

“She likes you,” M. said to him. “Maybe it’s the familiar scent.”<\/p>\n

He smokes a pipe, you see–which is why this essay<\/a> hit me hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The smell of fatherhood A week ago, M. and I were at a festival in northern Colorado. We put the two big dogs in a boarding kennel, but we brought Susie, who used to be my dad’s dog. 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