{"id":678,"date":"2013-05-31T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/678-day-517-best-friend.html"},"modified":"2013-05-31T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:45:00","slug":"day-517-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/678-day-517-best-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 517, Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1051 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/517-_MG_4654.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI love watching a happy dog play in the water as their owner strolls along side.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCan you imagine the opposite? While pondering this question I remember a scene back in summer here where a couple of small children played in much the same way in the tiny surf while a great German Shepard stood by keeping a watchful eye. I am sure there would have been been a parent somewhere nearby but somehow it seemed their faithful friend would not allow anything untoward happen just like &#8216;Nana&#8217; in the story of Peter Pan.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEither way &#8216;best friend&#8217; seem appropriate.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 517, Best Friend&#8217; 1\/50s f\/18 ISO100 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I love watching a happy dog play in the water as their owner strolls along side. Can you imagine the opposite? While pondering this question I remember a scene back in summer here where a couple of small children played in much the same way in the tiny surf while a &#8230; <a title=\"Day 517, Best Friend\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/678-day-517-best-friend.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 517, Best Friend\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}