{"id":8965,"date":"2013-07-24T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:40:11","slug":"things-i-learned-from-jake-always-go-for-a-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/things-i-learned-from-jake-always-go-for-a-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned from Jake: Always Go for the Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"5\/9\/2010 by ktbuffy, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ktbuffy\/4593363191\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"5\/9\/2010\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4066\/4593363191_a61f7dcba2.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>There&#8217;s not enough time. It&#8217;s drizzling. It&#8217;s too hot. It&#8217;s too cold.<\/p>\n<p>Forget all that. Go for the Walk.<\/p>\n<p>You will never find you&#8217;ve spent too much time with your friend, outside.<\/p>\n<p>You will always regret the walks you didn&#8217;t take &#8211; the opportunities squandered for less important things.<\/p>\n<p>I learned to discuss the possibility of taking a walk very obscurely, around my pets. Jake figured out the word, so I started spelling it.<\/p>\n<p>Then he figured out what I was spelling.<\/p>\n<p>Then he figured out all the synonyms.<\/p>\n<p>I should have just said the word, then immediately caved in when he ran over, tapped his leash, and looked back at me.<\/p>\n<p>The worst possible outcome would have been a walk, outside, with my buddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not enough time. It&#8217;s drizzling. It&#8217;s too hot. It&#8217;s too cold. Forget all that. Go for the Walk. You will never find you&#8217;ve spent too much time with your friend, outside. You will always regret the walks you didn&#8217;t take &#8211; the opportunities squandered for less important things. I learned to discuss the possibility &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/things-i-learned-from-jake-always-go-for-a-walk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I Learned from Jake: Always Go for the Walk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worth-1k","tag-jake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15141,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/15141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}