{"id":123,"date":"2010-11-19T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/layingfallow.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:33:49","slug":"canine-capers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Canine Capers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think I was fishing for comments with a panel about waking sleeping dogs.\u00a0 Next time I encounter snoozing dogs I will not wake them willingly.\u00a0 I was surprised to see them as I rounded a corner.\u00a0 But now I will always have a nice mental image of almost being eaten when I hear the idiom &#8220;let sleeping dogs lie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Overall the dogs here are well-behaved and pretty innocuous.\u00a0 They just seem to get in scuffles when one least expects it, surprising everyone.\u00a0 The only threat is the pack of wild dogs that live near the village garbage dump.\u00a0 I think their numbers are so great they could cause trouble if they wanted to.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve taken to running with rocks in my hands in case I encounter any of them.\u00a0 Not that my underdeveloped runner&#8217;s arms would hurl the stones hard enough to do any damage.\u00a0 Maybe the dogs would get confused when the dust from the stone that fell near their feet got in their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-19-canine-capers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380\" title=\"2010-11-19-canine-capers\" src=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-19-canine-capers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-19-canine-capers.jpg 773w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-19-canine-capers-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-19-canine-capers-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-19-canine-capers-614x904.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think I was fishing for comments with a panel about waking sleeping dogs.\u00a0 Next time I encounter snoozing dogs I will not wake them willingly.\u00a0 I was surprised to see them as I rounded a corner.\u00a0 But now I will always have a nice mental image of almost being eaten when I hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,7,14,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}