{"id":249,"date":"2008-12-19T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/a-reminder-during-the-christmas-stress\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:26:45","slug":"a-reminder-during-the-christmas-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/a-reminder-during-the-christmas-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder during the Christmas Stress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From a Dog to His Crabby Owner: <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>When you first brought me home with you,<br \/>You used to like to play.<br \/>You promised me that in your heart<br \/>Forever I would stay. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Something&#8217;s happened lately<br \/>And I don&#8217;t know what to do.<br \/>It&#8217;s time that I remind you<br \/>Of why God sent me to you. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Your voice is loud and angry<br \/>When you&#8217;re talking on the phone.<br \/>You growl a lot and say<br \/>That I should just leave you alone. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>You know that I can&#8217;t do that,<br \/>It&#8217;s the crime of canine crimes,<br \/>I will be right there by your side<br \/>In both good and bad times. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>I know there&#8217;s human things<br \/>That I will never understand,<br \/>But I think that I am helping<br \/>When I lick your tired hand. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope I make you happy<br \/>When I fetch my favorite toy,<br \/>It used to be a lot of fun<br \/>It used to bring you joy. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>You used to like to talk to me<br \/>And look into my eyes,<br \/>You knew there was a great spirit<br \/>Behind a canine disguise. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>I love you even though you&#8217;re mad<br \/>Your voice I will obey,<br \/>I hope that you still love me, too,<br \/>Although you will not say. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ll remind you now<br \/>Of why I came here from above,<br \/>To give to you and teach you<br \/>All about pure selfless love. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>So remember this about those things<br \/>That make you seem so sad,<br \/>You&#8217;d realize, if you&#8217;d play with me,<br \/>That nothing&#8217;s quite that bad. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Love always,<br \/>Your dog.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From a Dog to His Crabby Owner: When you first brought me home with you,You used to like to play.You promised me that in your heartForever I would stay. Something&#8217;s happened latelyAnd I don&#8217;t know what to do.It&#8217;s time that I remind youOf why God sent me to you. Your voice is loud and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}