{"id":40246,"date":"2019-12-11T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40246"},"modified":"2019-12-11T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:23:10","slug":"puppy-tales-part-80-whats-next-note-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40246","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 80: What&#8217;s next, note passing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TobythePuppy%20%23petparenthood&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Toby-the-Puppy-in-Christmas-sweater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40087\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Toby-the-Puppy-in-Christmas-sweater-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Toby-the-Puppy-in-Christmas-sweater-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Toby-the-Puppy-in-Christmas-sweater-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Toby-the-Puppy-in-Christmas-sweater.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy continues to astonish my wife and me.<\/p>\n<p>Just about the time we think we have devised a way to communicate with each other without getting him all wound up\/excited\/delighted, he surprises us by hearing certain words we thought were innocuous enough for him to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Take the personal pronouns &#8220;him&#8221; or &#8220;he.&#8221; He knows that when <em>he<\/em> hears those words, the next thing to come out of our mouths involves Toby the Puppy.<\/p>\n<p>I am now considering whether my wife and I need to start passing notes if we have to communicate messages that we don&#8217;t necessarily want Toby the hear.<\/p>\n<p>All this reminds me a bit of when my sisters and I were growing up. Our parents were bilingual. They spoke English, obviously. They also were fluent in Greek. They would speak Greek to each other when they didn&#8217;t want my sisters and I to hear what they were discussing.<\/p>\n<p>It made me so mad I coulda spit. Mom and Dad didn&#8217;t act smug when they put something over on us, however they surely must&#8217;ve <em>felt<\/em> like they were successful in keeping secrets from us. But \u2026 whatever.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are not bilingual. We are limited to speaking to each other in plain English. Toby doesn&#8217;t speak the language, but he damn sure understands it.<\/p>\n<p>I might need to keep a pen and a pocket tablet handy at all times.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TobythePuppy%20%23petparenthood&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby the Puppy continues to astonish my wife and me. Just about the time we think we have devised a way to communicate with each other without getting him all wound up\/excited\/delighted, he surprises us by hearing certain words we thought were innocuous enough for him to ignore. Take the personal pronouns &#8220;him&#8221; or &#8220;he.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 80: What&#8217;s next, note passing?<\/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":[3116,6016],"class_list":["post-40246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mom-and-dad","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246","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=40246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40247,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246\/revisions\/40247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}