{"id":265,"date":"2003-07-09T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T03:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/07\/09\/105780262263876370\/"},"modified":"2003-07-09T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T03:03:42","slug":"105780262263876370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/09\/105780262263876370\/","title":{"rendered":"105780262263876370"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Of dogs and blogs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just came back from walking my friend&rsquo;s dog (I am house and dog-sitting for the next week) and I stopped in a small park in my current neighborhood, Cole Valley. Of course, this being the town of Web celebrities, I ran into two very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrumph.com\/h\/000197.shtml\">famous chihuahuas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrumph.com\/about.html\">their human<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powazek.com\/\">companions<\/a>. San Francisco has complex dog walking ethics (and complex ethics in general), so I was too nervous checking on my friend&rsquo;s dog to actually say hi to them. And I wasn&rsquo;t too sure what to say. &laquo; Hi! I read you once in a while, and I know people who know you &raquo;? Plus, it felt funny knowing that I know them and that they don&rsquo;t know me. I felt like they might think I&rsquo;m a stalker or something. Silly. I know. The timid person in me comes back once in a while. Walking around with such a big dog should give me confidence, if he doesn&rsquo;t start eating chihuahuas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of dogs and blogs Just came back from walking my friend&rsquo;s dog (I am house and dog-sitting for the next week) and I stopped in a small park in my current neighborhood, Cole Valley. Of course, this being the town of Web celebrities, I ran into two very famous chihuahuas and their human companions. San&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/09\/105780262263876370\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">105780262263876370<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}