{"id":905,"date":"2026-07-28T10:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=905"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:04:58","slug":"the-magic-of-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"THE MAGIC OF DOGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is how the magic happens: a dog, a book, a quiet space. So proud of my therapy dog, Rudy, who takes part in a wonderful program at my local library: Reading to Rudy. Children pick out a book to read to Rudy, read for about 10 minutes (or if they can&#8217;t read, show him the pictures and make up a story), and then we have 5 minutes of tricks and treats. Rudy shows off his super tricks and the kids give him treats. Can you imagine a teacher who is as much fun as this? Stay tuned for my new book about Rudy coming out next month: Read to Rudy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Reading-to-Rudy-SFL-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Reading-to-Rudy-SFL-2026-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Reading-to-Rudy-SFL-2026-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Reading-to-Rudy-SFL-2026-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Reading-to-Rudy-SFL-2026-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Reading-to-Rudy-SFL-2026.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how the magic happens: a dog, a book, a quiet space. So proud of my therapy dog, Rudy, who takes part in a wonderful&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-eB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}