{"id":364,"date":"2010-08-04T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:13:06","slug":"about-dogs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2004\/about-dogs","title":{"rendered":"About Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 2004-01-28<br \/>\nRevised 2004-01-28<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>What is it about dogs?<\/p>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t savvy about romance,<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t comprehend the loss of fortune or fame,<br \/>\nFor what are these things to them?<\/p>\n<p>Yet they come to you when you cry,<br \/>\nSensing the discord and heartache,<br \/>\nLicking the bitter salt-tears from your cheeks,<br \/>\nThey are earnest in their need to comfort you.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t know the language,<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know your mind,<br \/>\nFor all its abstract and wondrous depth,<br \/>\nYet they read you as if you were a child&#8217;s book,<br \/>\nPlain and simple, without adornment.<\/p>\n<p>They forgive you,<br \/>\nThey trust you,<br \/>\nThey protect you,<br \/>\nThey mourn you,<br \/>\nAnd they don&#8217;t forget you when you&#8217;ve gone,<br \/>\nBe it for a day, or for ever.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about dogs,<br \/>\nBonded to us, their keepers,<br \/>\nIn a way more fundamental than love?<br \/>\nWho knows, precisely? But just the same,<br \/>\nAppreciate them for sharing their time with you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 2004-01-28 Revised 2004-01-28 What is it about dogs? They aren&#8217;t savvy about romance, They don&#8217;t comprehend the loss of fortune or fame, For what are these things to them? Yet they come to you when you cry, Sensing the discord and heartache, Licking the bitter salt-tears from your cheeks, They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":290,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}