{"id":6741,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-dog-is-not-dumb\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:38","slug":"the-dog-is-not-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-dog-is-not-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Is Not Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one home on my husband&#8217;s letter-carrying route, the dog on the other side of the mail slot always barked excitedly and eagerly grabbed the mail.  One day the dog&#8217;s owner explained that the Labrador had started bringing the mail upstairs to him soon after he got him, so he promptly rewarded with a treat.<\/p>\n<p>After several months there was a slight change in procedure: The dog still delivered the mail upstairs &#8212; but only one piece at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one home on my husband&#8217;s letter-carrying route, the dog on the other side of the mail slot always barked excitedly and eagerly grabbed the mail. One day the dog&#8217;s owner explained that the Labrador had started bringing the mail upstairs to him soon after he got him, so he promptly rewarded with a treat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[464,1399],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}