{"id":251,"date":"2016-09-25T07:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2016-09-25T07:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:48:28","slug":"enjoying-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"ENJOYING THE JOURNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie and Chloe here. One of our dog pals, Cola, from the dog practice places asked if we would share a poem she wrote. We said &#8220;yes&#8221; since our motto is &#8220;All dog poetry is good poetry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENJOYING THE JOURNEY<\/strong> (Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Cola)<\/p>\n<p>(Dedicated to my friends Chloe and Eddie, Buster&#8217;s memory, other Pals O&#8217; Tom, as well as Tom himself, who &#8220;gets it&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>She saw bubbly spirit within<br \/>\nSo decided to give it a spin<br \/>\nAnd take on my little brown soul<\/p>\n<p>Obedience, dog sports, and shows<br \/>\nEnjoying dog company wherever she goes<br \/>\nFor her these things were the goal<\/p>\n<p>So we socialized, visited, stood<br \/>\nIn time I learned that I could<br \/>\nBe gone over by judges and pet by the strangers<br \/>\n(She always made sure to protect me from dangers)<br \/>\nThis life was becoming quite good!<\/p>\n<p>My breed standard says &#8220;may be reserved&#8221;<br \/>\nBut I overcame shyness for those who deserved<br \/>\nMy very best whuffles and wags!<\/p>\n<p>My demeanor is really quite sweet<br \/>\nI will do ANYTHING asked for a treat<br \/>\nBut my Favorite is chasing the bags!<\/p>\n<p>We work hard &#8211; she&#8217;s so proud of me<br \/>\nNot a single point gained has been free<br \/>\nBut the valuable lesson she learned<br \/>\nNo matter the titles and treats that we earned<br \/>\nLove who I Am not who you want me to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie and Chloe here. One of our dog pals, Cola, from the dog practice places asked if we would share a poem she wrote. We said &#8220;yes&#8221; since our motto is &#8220;All dog poetry is good poetry.&#8221; &nbsp; ENJOYING THE &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/?p=251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busterjbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}