{"id":420,"date":"2016-12-27T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2016-12-27T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:09:17","slug":"would-you-like-to-eat-a-snowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT A SNOWMAN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0789.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-422\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0789-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0789\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0789-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0789.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My dog, Bella, was given a toy snowman for Christmas by the students at a local middle school where Bella is a regular visitor to the classroom. This is her favorite assignment as a therapy dog. Once the kids gave it to her, she swiftly began dismembering it and we sang a new version of the &#8220;Frozen&#8221; song:\u00a0 &#8220;Would you like to eat a snowman?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that the holidays are over, we have bits of the stuffing on the rug, a carrot nose under the couch, and a toy that now looks like many of us feel after the holidays. Deflated. But if you could see Bella&#8217;s joy as she ripped the toy apart, the concentration and pleasure as she extracted the stuffing from its belly, you&#8217;d laugh and maybe agree with me that this phase is okay too. The preparation is done, the guests have gone home, the tree is shedding its needles, and today it&#8217;s overcast and gray. Bella doesn&#8217;t mind. She thinks it&#8217;s the perfect time for a nap, until she can find another toy to destroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dog, Bella, was given a toy snowman for Christmas by the students at a local middle school where Bella is a regular visitor to the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-6M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}