{"id":1222,"date":"2007-12-26T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2007-12-26T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T20:45:00","slug":"best-in-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Best In Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a chunk of time yesterday watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westminsterkennelclub.org\/2007\/results\/bis\/index.html\">Westminster Kennel Dog Show<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t know why, it was on, I was waiting for James to get ready, and it amused me greatly. I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0218839\/\">Christopher Guest movie<\/a>, and the more I watched it, the more I saw and heard the inspiration for the comedy. Those dog breeders are serious. And all of the female handlers wear sensible shoes, you know, for the running. I caught the tail end of the sporting breeds, and most of the hounds. <\/p>\n<p>The staid, quiet, back-and-forth discussion between the emcees &#8211; priceless&#8230;. &#8220;The Basenji &#8230; is not the dog for everyone&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But my favorite moment came when, during the hounds, specifically a black and tan coonhound being shown, Tripper decided to start watching tv and got ALL bent out of shape about there being a foreign dog in the living room. He was low &#8220;burfing&#8221; and standing at attention while James and I tried to contain our laughter so as not to distract him. <\/p>\n<p>The other two dogs will react to noises &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/plazajen.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/fyi.html\">Law &#038; Order CI phones sound exactly like our doorbell<\/a> &#8211; but Tripper is the first to actively watch tv. Reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/plazajen.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/fun-filled-weekend-but-not-so-much-for.html\">dogsitting Gracie<\/a>, and teaching her about truth and justice. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, that coonhound&#8217;s ears? 32&#8243; tip to tip. I never did see such a pair o&#8217; ears on a dog. Perhaps that&#8217;s what alarmed Tripper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a chunk of time yesterday watching the Westminster Kennel Dog Show &#8211; I don&#8217;t know why, it was on, I was waiting for James to get ready, and it amused me greatly. I love the Christopher Guest movie, and the more I watched it, the more I saw and heard the inspiration for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}