{"id":23469,"date":"2018-01-25T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=23469"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:27:26","slug":"were-celebrating-lucys-second-adoptiversary-in-our-furry-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=23469","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re celebrating Lucy\u2019s second \u2018adoptiversary\u2019 in our furry home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lucy-second-adoptiversary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lucy-second-adoptiversary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lucy-second-adoptiversary.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lucy-second-adoptiversary-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lucy-second-adoptiversary-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lucy-second-adoptiversary-902x1024.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cats pretend they&#8217;re not excited, but I know better. They&#8217;re just as happy as I am that Lucy came to live with us, so they&#8217;re celebrating &#8212; in their own dignified feline ways &#8212; the second anniversary of Lucy joining us.<\/p>\n<p>When she came to live with us, Lucy was terrified of the world. The people who had rescued her and worked with her before she came to us declared that she would always be a \u201cspecial-needs doggie\u201d who wouldn\u2019t do very well and would probably never warm up to people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It took awhile, but Lucy slowly learned that she could trust her human \u2014 and her feline friends \u2014 so she developed confidence in herself and has slowly transformed herself into the World\u2019s Happiest Dog\u00ae. It&#8217;s amazing what consistent love and attention can do for an animal &#8212; or a human.<\/p>\n<p>We are very lucky that she came to live with us.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you don&#8217;t know Lucy&#8217;s story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=22145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s what I wrote last year<\/a> &#8212; on her first anniversary with us. You can click on the picture above to see a bigger version of her happy picture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cats pretend they&#8217;re not excited, but I know better. They&#8217;re just as happy as I am that Lucy came to live with us, so they&#8217;re celebrating &#8212; in their own dignified feline ways &#8212; the second anniversary of Lucy joining us. When she came to live with us, Lucy was terrified of the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=23469\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-66x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23478,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469\/revisions\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}