{"id":31883,"date":"2020-05-18T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31883"},"modified":"2020-05-18T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:16:07","slug":"briefly-lucys-been-meeting-little-girls-in-her-neighborhood-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31883","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Lucy\u2019s been meeting little girls in her neighborhood tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lucy-back-yard-relaxing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31884\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lucy-back-yard-relaxing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lucy-back-yard-relaxing.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lucy-back-yard-relaxing-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucy just made possible friends with two little girls, but the girls are more enthusiastic so far than she is. Joy, 5, and Hope, 6, just moved in with their grandmother on my street. I didn\u2019t know this, but while Lucy and I were walking, I heard a tiny voice from the darkness cry out, <em>\u201cHi, doggie!\u201d<\/em> It took me a minute to figure out where the voice was coming from, but once I did, their grandmother, Rose, came out onto the porch and gave the girls permission to pet Lucy, which delighted the girls. Joy said she wasn\u2019t allowed off her porch since she had socks and no shoes. Lucy was shy, but allowed them to pet her a bit, while the girls marveled about how soft she is. I hope Lucy will let them be her friends. It\u2019s a joy to see how far Lucy has come since she came <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=22145\">to live with me<\/a>. She\u2019s nothing like the \u201cspecial needs dog\u201d who I was told would never get close to anybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy just made possible friends with two little girls, but the girls are more enthusiastic so far than she is. Joy, 5, and Hope, 6, just moved in with their grandmother on my street. I didn\u2019t know this, but while Lucy and I were walking, I heard a tiny voice from the darkness cry out, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31883\" 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":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8if","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31883","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=31883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31885,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31883\/revisions\/31885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}