{"id":50248,"date":"2019-04-18T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50248"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:18:43","slug":"you-old-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50248","title":{"rendered":"You Old Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\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\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rushing Waters Moon<\/p>\n<p>from friend Tom Crane:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50249\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ancient-scottish-dog-420x280.jpg\" alt=\"ancient scottish dog\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ancient-scottish-dog-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ancient-scottish-dog-744x497.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ancient-scottish-dog-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ancient-scottish-dog.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">fetch my stone axe, boy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"m_-2193778410232243386gmail-section-start-text\">&#8220;CIVILIZATIONS MAY COME AND GO,\u00a0<\/span>but good dogs are forever. In a first for canine forensics, researchers have reconstructed the head of a domesticated dog that lived in\u00a0<a class=\"m_-2193778410232243386gmail-destination-link m_-2193778410232243386gmail-article-destination-link\" title=\"Things to do in Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/things-to-do\/scotland\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/things-to-do\/scotland&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1555687714129000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAu6ikYlyL4sb6uIEn5UivfkxW6w\">Scotland<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"m_-2193778410232243386gmail-destination-link m_-2193778410232243386gmail-article-destination-link\" title=\"Things to do in Orkney, Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/things-to-do\/orkney-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/things-to-do\/orkney-scotland&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1555687714129000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvnROitDiPJFZNbtTrvPaw3ZYJQw\">Orkney<\/a>\u00a0Islands some 4,500 years ago. Based on the size of its skull, the scientists believe the dog must have been roughly the size of a large collie and had features similar to a European grey wolf. Based on the loving gleam in its forensically reconstructed eyes, we believe the pup must have been a very good dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\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\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rushing Waters Moon from friend Tom Crane: &#8220;CIVILIZATIONS MAY COME AND GO,\u00a0but good dogs are forever. In a first for canine forensics, researchers have reconstructed the head of a domesticated dog that lived in\u00a0Scotland\u2019s\u00a0Orkney\u00a0Islands some 4,500 years ago. Based on the size of its skull, the scientists believe the dog must have been roughly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Old Dog<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50248","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=50248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50250,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50248\/revisions\/50250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}