{"id":9994,"date":"2018-11-28T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9994"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:58:22","slug":"a-brand-new-holiday-for-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9994","title":{"rendered":"A Brand-New Holiday for Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am punting on this post, referring you instead to this one by John Beckett on this year’s new holiday (greeting cards will be available next year, I am sure): “Celebrating Wolfenoot as a Pagan<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Yesterday I celebrated my friendship with A Certain Dog by cleaning up all the piles of vomit he created, indoors and out in the dog run, after eating . . . a bunch of deer parts he found in the woods, near as I can tell. Plus his breakfast.<\/p>\n

I tried telling him that he did not have to eat it all at once, but could bring some home in his carrion bag. Did he listen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am punting on this post, referring you instead to this one by John Beckett on this year’s new holiday (greeting cards will be available next year, I am sure): “Celebrating Wolfenoot as a Pagan.” Yesterday I celebrated my friendship with A Certain Dog by cleaning up all the piles of vomit he created, indoors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-9994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2Bc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1322,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1322","url_meta":{"origin":9994,"position":0},"title":"Pagans, Folklore, and Dogs","author":"Chas S. 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