{"id":12676,"date":"2012-12-23T02:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12676"},"modified":"2012-12-23T02:55:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T09:55:27","slug":"holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup-part-ii-with-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup-part-ii-with-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday weekend good news roundup, part II, with dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Just for trivia fun: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/156077\" target=\"_blank\">12 letters that didn&#8217;t make it into the alphabet<\/a>. (From yet another Friend O&#8217; Blog with the initial J; there seems to be a conspiracy of them this weekend.)\n<li>Rescuers deliver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/south-carolina-rescuers-deliver-an-early-christmas-to-homeless-man-and-his-dog\" target=\"_blank\">an early Christmas<\/a> to a homeless man and his dog.\n<li>Pit bull <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/pit-bull-saves-woman-from-armed-attacker-south-carolina\" target=\"_blank\">saves his human from an attacker<\/a>.\n<li>And although this isn&#8217;t strictly good news, it was surprising to me that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swatmag.com\/articles\/view\/hey-gun-owners-youre-sick\" target=\"_blank\"><i>S.W.A.T.<\/i> put my latest article online<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/i-am-tjic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infamous &#8212; and in my experience, very nice &#8212; TJIC<\/a> found it. Although it&#8217;s credited to me on the site, this was actually co-authored with Joel Simon (another J, you will note) and is properly credited in the print version.\n<li>I think we all know intuitively that getting out into nature lifts our mood and enhances creativity. But wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2012\/12\/13\/167181498\/ah-wilderness-nature-hike-could-unlock-your-imagination\" target=\"_blank\">how amazingly, measurably true<\/a> that turns out to be. (Tip o&#8217; hat to P. No, not another J, but it&#8217;ll probably turn out her middle name is Jeanne or something.)\n<li>I was talking knitting the other day. With a guy. Which I found refreshing. (Another J; it really is a conspiracy). He sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6854805248\" target=\"_blank\">this picture<\/a>. Talk about creativity! Maybe not really <i>enviable<\/i> creativity, you know. But still &#8230; creativity.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halopets.com\/freekibble\/donation80.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny puppy breaks into shelter<\/a> and finds furry friend. Awwwwwww.\n<li>Celebrity-golden retriever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/thepetcollective\/the-most-gorgeous-goldies-of-them-all-5x4b\" target=\"_blank\">look-alikes<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>My Ava would do this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/12\/23\/holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup-part-ii-with-dogs\/bordercollieandstatue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bordercollieandstatue.gif\" alt=\"bordercollieandstatue\" width=\"260\" height=\"179\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Border collies are supposed to be geniuses of the dog world. But they can be so OCD about toss-and-fetch that they lose all touch with reality. In fact, I&#8217;d say that &#8220;out of touch with reality&#8221; is Ava&#8217;s permanent state. The pooch above must be one of Ava&#8217;s close relatives on her BC side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for trivia fun: 12 letters that didn&#8217;t make it into the alphabet. (From yet another Friend O&#8217; Blog with the initial J; there seems to be a conspiracy of them this weekend.) Rescuers deliver an early Christmas to a homeless man and his dog. Pit bull saves his human from an attacker. And although this isn&#8217;t strictly good news, it was surprising to me that S.W.A.T. put my latest article online and the Infamous &#8212; and in my experience, very nice &#8212; TJIC found it. Although it&#8217;s credited to me on the site, this was actually co-authored with Joel&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup-part-ii-with-dogs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday weekend good news roundup, part II, with dogs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}