{"id":139,"date":"2008-08-03T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-08-08T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:24:21","slug":"molly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/molly\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly the Neurotic Wonder Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/1326188724\/\" title=\"Me &amp; Molly by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"soloShot\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1359\/1326188724_f25e15f328_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Me &amp; Molly\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m writing this to honor the memory of Molly May.  Molly wasn&#8217;t mine, but it doesn&#8217;t feel that way.  I met Molly only in the last of her 10 years, and she was a pretty amazing dog.  She was so smart and responsive you&#8217;d quickly find yourself talking to her like a person because she had an uncanny ability to really understand you in a way that was clearly not training.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/653624935\/\" title=\"Not exactly a guard dog by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"soloShot\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1241\/653624935_64502716b1_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Not exactly a guard dog\" \/><\/a>Her intelligence also seemed to manifest as an endearing set of neurosis, from being deathly afraid of thunder and photo flashes, to literally pouting if things didn&#8217;t go her way like getting her spot on the bed.  She&#8217;d even go into the bathroom and close the door behind her (locking herself in) when left alone at home.<\/p>\n<p>Molly, I&#8217;m glad I got to know you, and you will be dearly missed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/2616506035\/\" title=\"Molly the Neurotic Wonder Dog by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3266\/2616506035_6e6149a211.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Molly the Neurotic Wonder Dog\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this to honor the memory of Molly May. Molly wasn&#8217;t mine, but it doesn&#8217;t feel that way. I met Molly only in the last of her 10 years, and she was a pretty amazing dog. She was so smart and responsive you&#8217;d quickly find yourself talking to her like a person because she&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/molly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Molly the Neurotic Wonder Dog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1AkJt-molly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}