{"id":4569,"date":"2009-10-22T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2009-10-22T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:19:16","slug":"park-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/park-it-2","title":{"rendered":"Park it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s 35-degree snap, we have 75-degree weather today. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going into the city tonight to meet friends for dinner, but since it&#8217;s such beautiful weather, I decided to take a half-day, bring Rufus to the local(ish) dog park, and hope he would finally decide to play with other dogs. (Unless it&#8217;s another greyhound, he&#8217;s not interested after the first sniff.)<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, he palled around with a retriever-y sorta dog, chasing along when the dog&#8217;s owner threw a tennis ball. This is not that dog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157622516767545\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2657\/4035616964_bc5f6381f3.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither is this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157622516767545\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2678\/4034861863_6ed290af3f.jpg?resize=342%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, I didn&#8217;t get any pix of Ru playing at all. I was too shocked. Still and all, you should probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157622516767545\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out the photoset<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s 35-degree snap, we have 75-degree weather today. Go figure. I&#8217;m going into the city tonight to meet friends for dinner, but since it&#8217;s such beautiful weather, I decided to take a half-day, bring Rufus to the local(ish) dog park, and hope he would finally decide to play with other dogs. (Unless it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/park-it-2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Park it!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[62,212,111],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis","tag-dogs","tag-greyhound","tag-rufus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1bH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3497,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/return-to-dogville","url_meta":{"origin":4569,"position":0},"title":"Return to Dogville!","author":"Gil","date":"February 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We brought Rufus back to the dog park on Saturday! I was hoping he'd be more at ease with the other breeds. He wasn't. He still prefers to stand with us or walk over to other people and get affection. The only dogs he showed any sustained interest (more than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3457,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dog-day","url_meta":{"origin":4569,"position":1},"title":"Dog day","author":"Gil","date":"February 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Besides being Valentine's Day, Feb. 14th is also the birthday of my brother & my dog. I didn't call Boaz for a variety of reasons (shabbat, mainly), but we did take Rufus out to a dog park in Ridgewood, NJ for an impromptu birthday party. Amy & I both posted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3570\/3280182380_1c84dac816_o_d.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2120,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-standing-around-of-the-greys","url_meta":{"origin":4569,"position":2},"title":"The Standing Around of the Greys","author":"Gil","date":"June 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm crazy-busy with these Top Companies profiles and re-confirming all of my conference speakers, but here's a pic from Sunday's trip out to Vernon, NJ for a greyhound meet & greet (so people can find out what awesome dogs greyhounds can be): Rufus had a pretty good time. I mean,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4632,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sungrey","url_meta":{"origin":4569,"position":3},"title":"Sungrey","author":"Gil","date":"November 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We haven't gone on the Sunday greyhound hike in Wawayanda State Park for weeks and weeks, but the added hour overnight helped us get our thang together and join our greyhound pals. One of whom broke greyhound omerta by bringing along . . . a non-grey! But Daisy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2100,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-greyhound-and-leave-the-driving-to-us","url_meta":{"origin":4569,"position":4},"title":"Go greyhound, and leave the driving to us","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, this trumps my attempt at parking Amy's Mini in the garage: I'm going with \"In dog years, I'm old enough to drive, right?\", but feel free to add your own caption to this one.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1944,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs","url_meta":{"origin":4569,"position":5},"title":"The Truth About Cats and Dogs","author":"Gil","date":"March 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the Virtual Memories \/ Minimally Invasive estates, Rufus, you retired racing greyhound! Rufus raced under the name Primco Kabam, shares a birthday with my brother and, even though he didn't do too well on the track, his breed can supposedly get up to around 45mph . . .\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;suburbs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"suburbs","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/suburbs"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2188\/2322031144_7867a4de57_d.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}