{"id":1998,"date":"2009-11-10T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2009-11-10T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:34:49","slug":"fail-dog-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/10\/fail-dog-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Fail: Dog toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/p_480_360_4D353738-FB41-4FF0-A371-0525D5A21963.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/p_480_360_4D353738-FB41-4FF0-A371-0525D5A21963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you can&#8217;t read the blurry text, it says &#8220;If ball shows signs of wear, discard it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly we didn&#8217;t break the bank on these dog toys, but these tennis balls were not your average tennis balls, which have a shockingly short lifespan at my house.\u00c2\u00a0 These ones were much sturdier, and once gutted, smelled like reclaimed winter tires, dipped in turpentine, with just a hint of skunk.\u00c2\u00a0 There must be nicer smelling dog toys to be had, ones that last longer than ten minutes?<\/p>\n<p>I tagged this Llife with Lloyd, but actually this particular mess was thanks to Harvey.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I would rather clean up destroyed dog toys than my own destroyed possessions, but my dogs just don&#8217;t like toys that they can&#8217;t demolish.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you can&#8217;t read the blurry text, it says &#8220;If ball shows signs of wear, discard it.&#8221; Admittedly we didn&#8217;t break the bank on these dog toys, but these tennis balls were not your average tennis balls, which have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/10\/fail-dog-toys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[123],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-llife-with-lloyd","tag-ball-fail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-we","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}