{"id":399,"date":"2003-11-15T20:34:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T23:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=399"},"modified":"2003-11-15T20:34:46","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T23:34:46","slug":"quelage-as-tu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Quel&#8217;age as tu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> made a startling discovery today. After hours of rationalizing, reasoning and thinking I came up with the following conclusion: Our dog doesn&#8217;t understand us because she only understands French. Our 12 year old <em>puppy<\/em> was born somewhere in Acadia,  that&#8217;s that part of Nova Scotia where they still speak French.\n<\/p>\n<p>This also explains why she doesn&#8217;t listen to me or my wife. Our dog prefers to drop her message at spots where she&#8217;s out of view. And most importantly, she eats with knife and fork. Yes. You heard that quite alright. Talking about table manners, she has a distinctive way of letting know she is in charge. Naturally, that is, <em>after our cat<\/em> has signed off for the day as the &#8216;Pet-Commander-in-Chief&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>So: from now on, it&#8217;s &#8220;je m\u2019appelle Arthur,  comment t&#8217;appelle-tu, mon petit cherie&#8221;?  That is French for &#8216;Do you want a dogbone, Katy?&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>update: Make that Katie, instead of Katy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a startling discovery today. After hours of rationalizing, reasoning and thinking I came up with the following conclusion: Our dog doesn&#8217;t understand us because she only understands French. Our 12 year old puppy was born somewhere in Acadia, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}