{"id":1102,"date":"2011-09-05T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2011-09-05T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:31:34","slug":"dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1103\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1103\" title=\"Dog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dog-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dog-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dog-549x1024.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dog.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scary Dog<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Honestly, I\u2019m scared of them.\u00a0 Just when I think I\u2019m over it, one of them bites my daughter\u2019s thumb or knocks down my ninety-year-old neighbor.\u00a0 I get, rationally, that most dogs are harmless, and I\u2019m happy to pet the calm ones I know, but that still doesn\u2019t make me less fearful of big, jumping, lunging dogs.\u00a0 I feel so helpless around unfamiliar dogs, and so confused that their owners don\u2019t control them better.\u00a0 They let their dogs come right towards me with their panting tongues even when I\u2019m circling back away in polite terror.<\/p>\n<p>What am I supposed to say?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not supposed to admit you\u2019re scared of dogs.\u00a0 People laugh at you.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe you, or they tell you to be tough.\u00a0 They say that dogs can smell your fear.\u00a0 They explain that you put your hand out the wrong way so it\u2019s your own fault that dogs jump at you.\u00a0 They think their own precious, joyful dog coming close to you, sniffing right up your skirt, will be the one to convince you there\u2019s nothing to fear and then you\u2019ll be cured.<\/p>\n<p>Not so.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just something I live with, this fear of dogs.\u00a0 Fortunately, my parents-in-law have the silliest, goofiest, fluffiest dog that ever existed.\u00a0 I watch it run after a blue ginger-bread-man squeeze toy, with its nails clicking over the floor, and I think, \u201cThat is one silly dog.\u201d\u00a0 I also think, \u201cIt\u2019s biting a person-shaped toy.\u00a0 That could be me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, we still have no power from Irene.\u00a0 Day 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I\u2019m scared of them.\u00a0 Just when I think I\u2019m over it, one of them bites my daughter\u2019s thumb or knocks down my ninety-year-old neighbor.\u00a0 I get, rationally, that most dogs are harmless, and I\u2019m happy to pet the calm ones I know, but that still doesn\u2019t make me less fearful of big, jumping, lunging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}