{"id":144392,"date":"2020-05-16T15:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/16\/best-friends-why-is-the-love-we-have-for-our-dogs-so-special\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T13:35:31","slug":"best-friends-why-is-the-love-we-have-for-our-dogs-so-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144392","title":{"rendered":"Best friends: why is the  love we have for our dogs so special?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Don\u2019s grief for the loss of his retriever, Nigel, was a reminder that in a time of uncertainty, people are drawn to simple innocenceAt the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown we were confronted with a painful decision. Our West Highland terrier, Ziggy, who had travelled the world with us, was rapidly declining.She\u2019d beaten the odds three times following the discovery of a mass on her bladder which was finally confirmed as cancer. But in the space of a few months she\u2019d gone from accompanying us on 10km runs to struggling to walk, unable to pee and poo easily, her quality of life rapidly declining. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/may\/16\/best-friends-why-is-the-love-we-have-for-our-dogs-so-special\" target=\"_blank\">Best friends: why is the  love we have for our dogs so special?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Don\u2019s grief for the loss of his retriever, Nigel, was a reminder that in a time of uncertainty, people are drawn to simple innocenceAt the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown we were confronted with a painful decision. Our West Highland terrier, Ziggy, who had travelled the world with us, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}