{"id":35,"date":"2007-07-31T22:08:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T04:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/2007\/07\/31\/graduation-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T04:09:13","slug":"graduation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/graduation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/0731072038.jpg\" title=\"TigerMan graduating\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/0731072038.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"TigerMan graduating\" alt=\"TigerMan graduating\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-right:5px;\" \/><\/a>TigerMan graduated tonight. He was on his best behavior during the evening&#8217;s ceremony, so needless to say we were pretty sure he wasn&#8217;t going to graduate.<\/p>\n<p>The exam was a tough one. He had to: sit, stay, lay down, &#8220;watch me&#8221;, come and walk nicely on his leash. The last one was the toughest for him but he mustered just enough will power to do it.<\/p>\n<p>So no obedience school drop-outs here. He got his diploma. He was so proud in fact, that he didn&#8217;t fuss, too much, about having a graduation cap placed on his head for us to take pictures. We were so proud.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s to higher education and it&#8217;s latest graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TigerMan graduated tonight. He was on his best behavior during the evening&#8217;s ceremony, so needless to say we were pretty sure he wasn&#8217;t going to graduate. The exam was a tough one. He had to: sit, stay, lay down, &#8220;watch me&#8221;, come and walk nicely on his leash. The last one was the toughest for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}