{"id":683,"date":"2023-01-07T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2023-01-07T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:54:28","slug":"it-never-gets-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"IT NEVER GETS OLD!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-685 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2827-e1673106164192-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2827-e1673106164192-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2827-e1673106164192.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having a therapy dog never gets old. Here&#8217;s Rudy at almost six years old&#8211;he&#8217;s been a certified therapy dog since he turned one and he&#8217;s amazing. One of the places we visit is a special education class at our local high school, and the students made him a card and bought him a few toys. I wish you could see the faces of the students as Rudy prances into the room. He knows he&#8217;ll be adored. Given treats. The students all told him what they had done over the Christmas break, and although Rudy doesn&#8217;t understand the words, he knows they&#8217;re happy to see him, knows somehow that it&#8217;s important for him to be there.<\/p>\n<p>One boy likes to play hide &#8216;n seek with Rudy and although Rudy cheats and watches him as he gets into his hiding place, they both have a blast. Another student, who used to be afraid of dogs, sits quietly beside Rudy and with a little encouragement, pats his black, shiny fur. Some keep their distance but are fascinated. We stay about a half hour. When it&#8217;s time to go, everyone says goodbye and after we sign out at the front desk, Rudy gets into the back seat of my car and closes his eyes. It&#8217;s hard work being adored, but it never gets old.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the inside of the card:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2828.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2828-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2828-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2828.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a therapy dog never gets old. Here&#8217;s Rudy at almost six years old&#8211;he&#8217;s been a certified therapy dog since he turned one and he&#8217;s amazing.&#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-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-b1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}