{"id":19,"date":"2009-05-06T04:17:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:43:28","slug":"false-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/false-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"False Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/barkingdog.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/barkingdog-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-23\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-23'>\n\t\t\t\tHere the vicious animal that threatens me every day!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>While jogging today my thoughts were interrupted by someones pet.\u00a0 It was one of those cute little mama&#8217;s boy type dogs.\u00a0 Perfectly groomed and spoiled, the kind you see on her lap as she&#8217;s driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So goes the ritual when I pass to close the dogs idea of what is allowed, and the dog charges me, teeth gnashing, and barking up a storm.\u00a0 However, there&#8217;s one small problem.\u00a0 There a fence between me and the dog in which the dog cannot breach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So this little dog puts on his little show of fiery and toughness until it reaches the fence and it shuts up.\u00a0 Turns around to head back to the house feeling really proud that it showed me&#8230; it even turns its head back to give me one more smart ass look like &#8220;your lucky&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 At which time I just see myself charging the fence, jumping over it, chasing him down and punting him back to the safety of its mother.<\/p>\n<p>Then I snap out of it&#8230; hmm&#8230; that was not a nice thought&#8230;.\u00a0 back to my run&#8230; I&#8217;m only half way done&#8230; ugh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While jogging today my thoughts were interrupted by someones pet.\u00a0 It was one of those cute little mama&#8217;s boy type dogs.\u00a0 Perfectly groomed and spoiled, the kind you see on her lap as she&#8217;s driving.\u00a0 So goes the ritual when I pass to close the dogs idea of what is allowed, and the dog charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}