{"id":2450,"date":"2006-11-19T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/houseguest\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T17:35:47","slug":"houseguest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/houseguest\/","title":{"rendered":"Houseguest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mdm-logo.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/mdm-logo.gif\" width=\"226\" height=\"190\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\/><br \/>\nI borrowed the logo from my brother Terence&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydogsmind.com\/\">dog training business<\/a> for this entry because I don&#8217;t have a photo of Dulcie (named for a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbara-pym.org\/\">Barbara Pym<\/a><\/em> character).  Dulcie, my parents&#8217; 8 year old American Pit Bull Terrier spent the past four days with me  while my folks were in Baltimore.  She is the gentlest, sweetest dog I have ever known.  Dulcie greets me with an affectionate lick as soon as I wake up.  She sits quietly under my desk while I work at the computer and rests at my side while I say my prayers.  While I am at the monastery celebrating Holy Mass she waits patiently for me in the car.  Dulcie also expresses joy (or some comparable doggy emotion) with a great glorious howl of glee.   More priests should have dogs.  They keep one human and grounded.  N.B.  <em>Santa Croce in Gerusalemme<\/em> has two dogs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/santacroce\/sets\/72157594361429598\/\">Morris<\/a> and . . . <em>Bernardo<\/em>, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed the logo from my brother Terence&#8217;s dog training business for this entry because I don&#8217;t have a photo of Dulcie (named for a Barbara Pym character). Dulcie, my parents&#8217; 8 year old American Pit Bull Terrier spent the past four days with me while my folks were in Baltimore. She is the gentlest, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Dw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}