{"id":8200,"date":"2011-12-11T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2019-04-09T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T04:59:58","slug":"do-they-allow-dogs-at-the-hotel-real-question-is-why-they-allow-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=8200","title":{"rendered":"Do they allow dogs at the hotel? Question is why they allow people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Dog-friendly-hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8201\" title=\"Dog-friendly hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Dog-friendly-hotel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a>A friend sent this story to me today. I wanted to share it with you because it helps explain why I tend to like dogs and cats better than most humans.<\/p>\n<p>A man wrote a letter to a Chicago hotel where he planned to stay while on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to bring my dog with me,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;He is well-behaved and well-groomed. Would you be willing to permit me to keep him in my room?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hotel owner replied, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been operating hotels for 30 years. I&#8217;ve never had a dog steal bedclothes, towels, silverware or pictures off the walls. I&#8217;ve never had to kick a dog out in the middle of the night for being drunk and disorderly. And I&#8217;ve never had a dog skip out on a hotel bill. So, yes, your dog is welcome at my hotel. And if your dog will vouch for you, you&#8217;re welcome to stay, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this story to me today. I wanted to share it with you because it helps explain why I tend to like dogs and cats better than most humans. A man wrote a letter to a Chicago hotel where he planned to stay while on vacation. &#8220;I would like to bring my dog <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=8200\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-28g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200","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=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28281,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions\/28281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}