{"id":369,"date":"2007-12-27T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newagrarian.com\/wp\/?p=369"},"modified":"2007-12-27T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T17:06:51","slug":"welcome-everett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2007\/12\/27\/welcome-everett\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Everett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lost both our dogs last year, and although Sadie, the new girl, is a wonderful dog, a house isn&#8217;t a home without at least two basset hounds. And so:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/dw-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/everett.jpg' alt='puppy Everett' \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy happened to be available five days before Christmas, and so here is is. We named him Everett, after Ulysses Everett McGill in <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0190590\/\"><cite>O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/cite><\/a>, but should maybe have named him Marvin, as in Starvin&#8217; Marvin, because he approaches a bowl of food like a Visigoth to Rome. When not hungrily eyeing herds of cattle he has a quiet confidence that I think will make him an excellent dog, and he seems to be pretty smart; at ten weeks old he will already sit on request. (Not &#8220;command&#8221; so much because he&#8217;s only ten weeks old, and also because he&#8217;s a basset hound.) <\/p>\n<p>Sadie adores him and has played with him constantly, when she isn&#8217;t sleeping on the couch with him. They&#8217;re already Best Friends Forever. One dog is a pet; two and you really are sharing your home with another species. I missed that. Merry Christmas to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost both our dogs last year, and although Sadie, the new girl, is a wonderful dog, a house isn&#8217;t a home without at least two basset hounds. And so: This guy happened to be available five days before Christmas, and so here is is. We named him Everett, after Ulysses Everett McGill in O [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17],"tags":[122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-5X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}