{"id":217124,"date":"2010-01-15T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-5763762086753803593"},"modified":"2010-01-15T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:37:57","slug":"weve-decided-to-adopt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217124","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Decided to Adopt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S0_tFa2vysI\/AAAAAAAAE88\/Zk1BcISp82o\/s1600-h\/lola.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S0_tFa2vysI\/AAAAAAAAE88\/Zk1BcISp82o\/s320\/lola.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426816753368812226\" \/><\/a>&#8230;a dog instead of buying a puppy. This is a big step for me. Trusting a dog I didn&#8217;t raise from a pup around my kids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been looking for the perfect fit for our family. A breed that I know and trust. A dog that is proven to be above reproach around children. A dog that had the &#8220;right&#8221; story. <\/p>\n<p>First, let me just say that the application process (and competition) is insane! I felt like telling them to leave my pages on file in case I ever wanted to forward it to a human adoption agency. It was seriously that intense. I even had to send pics of our yard, every room of our house and one of each of us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, last week I finally found her. Lola, L. O. L. A. Lola. A three year old French Bulldog. She&#8217;s currently in upstate NY and I am going to get her on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>There are so many dogs out there being surrendered because of the economy. Most breeds have their own rescue groups &#8211;so choosing to adopt doesn&#8217;t mean you have to end up with a dog\/breed\/mix that you aren&#8217;t crazy about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lola is already spayed, housebroken and obedience trained&#8230;wish I could have gotten my kids that way! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-5763762086753803593?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a dog instead of buying a puppy. This is a big step for me. Trusting a dog I didn&#8217;t raise from a pup around my kids&#8230; So I&#8217;ve been looking for the perfect fit for our family. A breed that I know and trust. A dog that is proven to be above reproach around children. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}