{"id":890,"date":"2007-05-02T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/tiny-terrier\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T19:02:23","slug":"tiny-terrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/tiny-terrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Terrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sad story about a pretty gutsy dog in New Zealand.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently a Jack Russell terrier was playing with some children when two pit bulls tried to attack them.\u00c2\u00a0 The terrier leapt to the kids defence, but wasn&#8217;t a match for the pit bulls, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad, but it pretty much sums up the best and worst of what people can do to animals.\u00c2\u00a0 We can make them our best ally and friend, loyal to the very end.\u00c2\u00a0 Or we can make them into criminals, enemies, shunned and despised by everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess that goes for people, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/02\/hero.dog.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sad story about a pretty gutsy dog in New Zealand.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently a Jack Russell terrier was playing with some children when two pit bulls tried to attack them.\u00c2\u00a0 The terrier leapt to the kids defence, but wasn&#8217;t a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/tiny-terrier\/\">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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}