{"id":1750,"date":"2012-12-07T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/giving-back\/"},"modified":"2012-12-07T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T01:50:00","slug":"giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/giving-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>     <br \/>For those of you going into nursing homes with therapy dogs, especially all the Rattlebridge Cavaliers working in therapy, I salute you.&#160; I wish I had your energy.&#160; I may not be able to organize my schedule in my ADD way to make it to nursing homes, but I can take in a couple of senior citizen dogs to help.&#160; The number of abandoned and neglected animals has grown with our poor economy.&#160; Please join me in doing something for them as well as our own homeless people.&#160; <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I have a huge house for one person and have wanted to give a home to a homeless family even when Al was alive.&#160; He wisely said no; last year I did try it on my own and it just did not work out. Long and sad story.&#160; However, there are other ways to help: donating food, toys, clothes, or money in the Christmas season, working at soup kitchens, and finding other ways to help.&#160; Prayer never hurts either. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you going into nursing homes with therapy dogs, especially all the Rattlebridge Cavaliers working in therapy, I salute you.&#160; I wish I had your energy.&#160; I may not be able to organize my schedule in my ADD way to make it to nursing homes, but I can take in a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}