{"id":1449,"date":"2010-11-14T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2012-11-16T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T13:11:56","slug":"a-dog-shaped-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/a-dog-shaped-space\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dog-Shaped Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember my old roommate, Dan<\/a>? In April 2004, he took one look at the twin bed I was about to move into the spare bedroom of his apartment and said, “Um. No. If you don’t have room in your bed<\/em> for a man, you don’t have room in your life<\/em> for a man. You want a man? Go get a real bed.” I understood what he was saying. Create a metaphysical space in your life for the things you want.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing about that puppy I found<\/a> last week. (Stay with me, these two things are<\/em> related.) I feel like the man I’m going to end up with will probably<\/em> be a dog person and will probably<\/em> have a dog. I’m trying to leave a dog-shaped space in my house in case Mr. Wonderful and his Mastiff walk in.<\/p>\n

Now, chances are he won’t have a Mastiff, which is good because the one I know from the dog park weighs 180 pounds. But let’s say I find a chihuahua running around the neighborhood, well, he’s only going to take up 9 pounds worth of my dog-shaped space. There would totally be room for a pit bull up in there. Or a lab, or a shepherd.<\/p>\n

Whatever, my point is, that puppy was under 20 pounds, and he wasn’t going to grow up to be a huge dog, but he wasn’t going to grow up to be small dog, and what if he took up too much of my dog-shaped metaphysical space and Mr. Wonderful and his Rottweiler couldn’t fit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember my old roommate, Dan? In April 2004, he took one look at the twin bed I was about to move into the spare bedroom of his apartment and said, “Um. No. If you don’t have room in your bed for a man, you don’t have room in your life for a man. You want … Continue reading A Dog-Shaped Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules","category-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}