{"id":4245,"date":"2015-05-08T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T22:37:26","slug":"the-puppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/the-puppy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4259\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0130.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4259 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0130.jpg?resize=525%2C356\" alt=\"The Northland litter.\" width=\"525\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northland litter at rest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few weeks back, <strong>The Goddess<\/strong> and I travelled north to select a future successor to <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/tag\/the-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dog<\/a>. There was a litter of twelve puppies from which to choose, and we had first dibs \u2014 a privilege bestowed upon us by the <b>Horsewoman<\/b>, purveyor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2014\/08\/31\/hi-yo\/\" target=\"_blank\">cavalry element<\/a> and co-conspirator with The Goddess of all schemes equine. Securing a successor sounds ruthless on first listen but part of life is death, and life is hard to imagine without the companionship of a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing a puppy was more difficult than expected. Each candidate had to be assessed for colour, aptitude, energy \u2014 <em>oh, who the heck am I kidding?<\/em> They were all cute. They were all cuddly. They could <i>all<\/i> have come back to Fortress Mamea with us, their mother and owner be damned.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, The Goddess remembered a checklist drawn up earlier, when we weren&#8217;t surrounded by playful, yippy bundles of joy: female, calm, of good character, and with excellent references. The Horsewoman suggested a couple of candidates that fit the criteria, and the rest was pretty much a coin-toss.<\/p>\n<p>Meet <b>The Puppy<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1825.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1825.jpg?resize=525%2C655\" alt=\"The Puppy, Apr15\" width=\"525\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1825.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1825.jpg?resize=513%2C640&amp;ssl=1 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, The Goddess and I travelled north to select a future successor to The Dog. There was a litter of twelve puppies from which to choose, and we had first dibs \u2014 a privilege bestowed upon us by the Horsewoman, purveyor of the cavalry element and co-conspirator with The Goddess of all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/the-puppy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Puppy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[1118,1117,330,287,1116],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-horsewoman","tag-the-cavalry","tag-the-dog","tag-the-goddess","tag-the-puppy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}