{"id":3870,"date":"2012-01-23T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2012-01-23T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:46:01","slug":"irrational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/irrational\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was pretty hysterical last night when I wrote the last post, and I woke up in the middle of the night several times with half-thoughts that I wanted to get out there.<\/p>\n<p>First, the title &#8220;No Reason&#8221; was supposed to reflect my state of mind, not the shelter&#8217;s motivations. Yes, I am mad at them, but as a third grader is at the nurse who gives him a shot: reasonable enough to understand why it&#8217;s happening but still angry about it and misdirecting that anger at the messenger.<\/p>\n<p>My anger should really be directed at the stupid fuck who (most likely) bought the dog and then didn&#8217;t parent him and then decided even not-parenting him was too much trouble and put him out on the street. And the stupid fuck before him who didn&#8217;t spay and neuter the parent-dogs.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;m very thankful. Thankful to the shelter for taking on this Herculean task of maintaining a reasonable pet population. I also\u00a0know that the pit bulls they send into the community have to be ambassadors for the breed and that DW might have been detrimental to the cause of bully compassion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also so grateful for my friend who works at APS who (though she doesn&#8217;t even work on that side of the business) kept me apprised of the situation, who fought for me and DW , and who went over to be with him in his final moments, a task I&#8217;m not sure I would&#8217;ve done had our situations been reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was pretty hysterical last night when I wrote the last post, and I woke up in the middle of the night several times with half-thoughts that I wanted to get out there. First, the title &#8220;No Reason&#8221; was supposed to reflect my state of mind, not the shelter&#8217;s motivations. Yes, I am mad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/irrational\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irrational<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","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=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}