{"id":924,"date":"2010-05-17T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2011-11-08T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:11:04","slug":"better-than-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/better-than-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Than A Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew and I are both dog people.\u00c2\u00a0 Before getting married, we talked pretty seriously about getting a dog, but then we got engaged, were working full time (plus I was working another part time job), planning a wedding, driving across the country, getting married&#8230;you get the picture.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t seem fair to get a dog if we couldn&#8217;t devote the time we both thought a dog deserved.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Maybe after we&#8217;re married,&#8221; we both said.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I got pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Griffin has been in our lives for over a year, we&#8217;ve been talking about how we&#8217;d love to have a dog someday. . .like when Griffin can take care of it.\u00c2\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve also been thinking, &#8220;Who needs a dog when you have a baby?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The parallels are more than you might imagine.\u00c2\u00a0 Griffin likes to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>unroll and shred the toilet paper<\/li>\n<li>eat everything, especially non-food items<\/li>\n<li>get into the recycling and garbage<\/li>\n<li>go for walks<\/li>\n<li>pee on the rug<\/li>\n<li>run around in the backyard<\/li>\n<li>lap up water from puddles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And yesterday, we discovered he loves the sprinkler!\u00c2\u00a0 Check out the video:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Backyard sprinkler\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/POUcdZUex1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Of course, a dog can&#8217;t say &#8220;Mama&#8221; or &#8220;Dada,&#8221; and a dog certainly won&#8217;t sit on your lap and listen to you read stories while he turns the pages.\u00c2\u00a0 And even though Griffin likes to pull all the books off of the bookshelves and reorganize the tupperware all over the kitchen floor, we think he&#8217;s a keeper and better than any dog we could have imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew and I are both dog people.\u00c2\u00a0 Before getting married, we talked pretty seriously about getting a dog, but then we got engaged, were working full time (plus I was working another part time job), planning a wedding, driving across the country, getting married&#8230;you get the picture.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t seem fair to get a dog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/better-than-a-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better Than A Dog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[23],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}