{"id":36390,"date":"2019-04-01T16:57:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36390"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:57:30","slug":"puppy-tales-part-68-the-time-does-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36390","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 68: The time does fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TobythePuppy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Puppy-Two.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36328\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Puppy-Two-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Puppy-Two-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Puppy-Two.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy became an instant part of our family nearly five years ago. I have two versions of the story explaining how he joined us: There&#8217;s the epic version and the 30-second elevator-ride version.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latter story: Our great niece found him shivering next to a Dumpster in Amarillo; she brought him home, asked what we should do with him and then, well, after a few days we decided he was ours to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Toby&#8217;s fifth birthday. How do we know his precise age? That, too, is a bit of a story.<\/p>\n<p>Upon welcoming Toby into our family, we took him to the veterinarian&#8217;s office. She looked him over, then peered into his mouth. We asked her, &#8220;How old is he?&#8221; She didn&#8217;t bat a lash when she said, &#8220;He&#8217;s 5 months old.&#8221; How did the doctor know? His teeth, she said; they&#8217;re a giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>She was lead-pipe-cinch certain of his age.<\/p>\n<p>So, that was in early September 2014. We backed it up five months. <em>Presto<\/em>! That puts his date of birth on or around April Fool&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>That has been the day we have celebrated as Toby&#8217;s birthday ever since. I won&#8217;t bore you with the epic version of how his arrival into our family unfolded. Suffice to say that given all that transpired with our great-niece as we sought to figure out Toby&#8217;s future, the very idea that he would have been born in April Fool&#8217;s Day is utterly poetic . . . <em>and just!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We fell madly in love with this pooch right away. He has made us laugh <em>every single day<\/em> since he joined us.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to much more laughter.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TobythePuppy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby the Puppy became an instant part of our family nearly five years ago. I have two versions of the story explaining how he joined us: There&#8217;s the epic version and the 30-second elevator-ride version. Here&#8217;s the latter story: Our great niece found him shivering next to a Dumpster in Amarillo; she brought him home, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 68: The time does fly<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6016],"class_list":["post-36390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36391,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390\/revisions\/36391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}