{"id":4940,"date":"2013-03-23T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"a-challenging-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-challenging-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Challenging Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5453\/9449210437_b26fa80aff_o_d.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 0px none;\" title=\"Walking the Team, dogs\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5453\/9449210437_c8caf50539_n_d.jpg\" alt=\"Walking the Team, dogs, leash\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>I arrived at work at 7:30 AM, following a grueling 150 foot commute.\u00a0 The traffic was terrible. \u00a0Normally both dogs march along shoulder to shoulder at the ends of their leashes.\u00a0 I tell Cochise, \u201cPlay yard,\u201d or \u201cHome\u201d or \u201cMail box\u201d, or (his least favorite) \u201cWork\u201d and he heads off in the right direction.\u00a0 I tell Blondie, \u201cStay with Cochise\u201d and she obediently strides along beside him wherever he goes.\u00a0 Normally, but not today.\u00a0 Today I\u2019d started the pickup earlier to warm it up before Marie heads into town and her work and Blondie really, really wanted to go for a ride; so when we came down the steps she was intent on going that direction.\u00a0 Cochise smelled something fascinating down in the yard and really, really wanted to go that way to check it out.\u00a0 So they strained in opposite directions, neither one in the direction I needed to go.\u00a0 We worked it out eventually, but it was a disorganized swirl instead of the usual orderly parade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Read more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grit.com\/farm-and-garden\/the-first-day-of-spring#axzz3I8T4xgou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0 What follows is a discussion of weather and gardening.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at work at 7:30 AM, following a grueling 150 foot commute.&nbsp; The traffic was terrible. &nbsp;Normally both dogs march along shoulder to shoulder at the ends of their leashes.&nbsp; I tell Cochise, &ldquo;Play yard,&rdquo; or &ldquo;Home&rdquo; or &ldquo;Mail box&rdquo;, or (his least favorite) &ldquo;Work&rdquo; and he heads off in the right direction.&nbsp; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-challenging-commute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Challenging Commute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21557,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/21557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}