{"id":34500,"date":"2016-03-04T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34500"},"modified":"2016-03-04T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:31:22","slug":"a-secular-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34500","title":{"rendered":"A Secular Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Valentine Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34501\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/at-the-door400.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34501\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/at-the-door400.jpg\" alt=\"Kepler, Gertie, Vega\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kepler, Gertie, Vega<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Miss Vega has gotten friskier, happier. She&#8217;s receiving\u00a0home injections of the antibiotic necessary to combat the rogue e-coli infection. We\u00a0may be on the upward slope of recovery now.<\/p>\n<p>Kepler went over to Bailey yesterday. Award Winning Pet Grooming defurs him. The owner, who has Ayn Rand quotes posted on the counter, said they&#8217;d had lots of dogs in with blown coats. We&#8217;ve had cold weather then unseasonably warm weather. Twice. Good for dog groomers.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda, the groomer who cares for our dogs, and I got into a conversation about Vega and her amputation. She said dogs were amazing; they go on unfazed, living their life. We both remarked that dogs make us better humans. She then said, casually, something that revealed her to be a secular saint, at least in my non-dogmatic (haha, dogmatic!) canonization process.<\/p>\n<p>After remarking about how they go on unfazed, Amanda said that she used to go to the local shelters and adopt old dogs so they wouldn&#8217;t have to die alone. The last one she adopted, a pit bull, had three legs. Not sure why she stopped, but that she did it at all, that she thought of it even, impressed me, made me think of the legions of kind persons out there.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda will be in my gratefuls tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Valentine Moon Miss Vega has gotten friskier, happier. She&#8217;s receiving\u00a0home injections of the antibiotic necessary to combat the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Secular Saint<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,14,3907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-reimagining-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34505,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500\/revisions\/34505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}