{"id":42033,"date":"2022-11-20T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42033"},"modified":"2022-11-20T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:14:30","slug":"today-i-adopted-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42033","title":{"rendered":"Today I adopted a human&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-42034\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Man_And_Dog-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Man And  Dog\" width=\"603\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Man_And_Dog-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Man_And_Dog-768x932.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Man_And_Dog.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;It broke my heart to see him so alone and confused. I suddenly saw his watery eyes as he lo<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">oked into mine. So I barked with all my might and went after him, the following from house to house. Finally, I got close enough to touch his hand with my nose. The man smiled and I felt his cold heart begin to warm.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I moved closer to his face and felt his tears start to flow. I looked at him and he replied with a beautiful smile. I jumped into his lap excitedly, promising that I would be fine, that I would love him forever, and that I would never leave him. How lucky that he passed by where I was and that we could meet like that. I felt lucky too.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">So many people have been there, but only he, only he, looked at me. I&#8217;m glad he made a choice and that I was able to save his life.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I adopted a person.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It broke my heart to see him so alone and confused. I suddenly saw his watery eyes as he looked into mine. So I barked with all my might and went after him, the following from house to house. Finally, I got close enough to touch his hand with my nose. The man smiled and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today I adopted a human&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42035,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions\/42035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}