{"id":1698,"date":"2013-08-12T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:02:57","slug":"magic-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Magic Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every weird thing the dog eats comes out oddly intact from his other end. \u00a0Where\u2026a LOT of times\u2026it gets stuck.\u00a0 Half in.\u00a0 Half out.<\/p>\n<p>The other day\u00a0it was a piece of twine (which looked like a limp-noodle-secondary-tail hanging down underneath the dog&#8217;s bobbed-primary-tail).<\/p>\n<p>While only four inches of the twine was visible to the naked eye, upon further investigation,\u00a0it turns out the piece of twine was ACTUALLY 9 inches long (a total guesstimate, puh-lease!\u00a0 I&#8217;m not THAT crazy!!).<\/p>\n<p>The whole time the &#8220;twine extraction process&#8221; was underway, I could practically HEAR the circus music in the background.\u00a0 I was playing the role of the clown pulling the never-ending silk scarf out of the&#8230;er&#8230;sleeve.\u00a0 <em>Duhn duhn duh duh duh duh DUHN duhn\u00a0duh DUH<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>During these instances when the clown is pulling the silk scarf out of the&#8230;er&#8230;sleeve, the dog always acts like the clown is actually trying to POKE IT BACK IN!\u00a0 So he rears up (heh, heh, heh &#8211; pun intended), bats the clown with his front paws and in general acts like the clown was trying to take his maidenhood by force.\u00a0 At the END\u00a0(heh, heh, heh \u2013 ANOTHER intended pun\u00a0&#8211; me funny), all embarrassed, the dog skulks away to another room.\u00a0 Which is fine because the clown is skulking\u00a0the other way &#8211; to dispose of whatever brackish\u00a0seaweed has been extracted (NOT measure it, ya loons!).<\/p>\n<p>So to\u00a0get to the BOTTOM (funny) of things &#8211; you discover that what is\u00a0really BEHIND (funny) all of this is that the dog has been a GREAT addition to the family.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Cept for all that clownin\u2019 around.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Cept for that.\u00a0\u00a0Let&#8217;s\u00a0make no ifs, ands, or BUTTS [still funny] about THAT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every weird thing the dog eats comes out oddly intact from his other end. \u00a0Where\u2026a LOT of times\u2026it gets stuck.\u00a0 Half in.\u00a0 Half out. The other day\u00a0it was a piece of twine (which looked like a limp-noodle-secondary-tail hanging down underneath the dog&#8217;s bobbed-primary-tail). While only four inches of the twine was visible to the naked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}