{"id":11983,"date":"2019-12-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailycoyote.net\/index.php\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T04:35:46","slug":"charlies-cues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/?p=11983","title":{"rendered":"Charlie&#8217;s Cues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/charliescues2019W.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/charliescues2019W.jpg 495w, https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/charliescues2019W-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">When Charlie was a little pup, I once plucked a long, dry weed and teased  him with it. He caught the very end between his teeth, bit it off, and  spit it out. I teased him with the weed stalk again, and he nipped off  another quarter-inch bit and spit it out. Over and over for the length of the weed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This became one of our games ~ I hold out a dry weed frond, and he nips it off in tiny bits until he reaches my fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Charlie  now uses &#8216;weed nipping&#8217; as a signal that he wants to play. He&#8217;ll run to  a stand of dry weeds and nip them off, shaking his head as he spits  them out, his cue for &#8220;Come play with me!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">photo taken November 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Charlie was a little pup, I once plucked a long, dry weed and teased him with it. He caught the very end between his teeth, bit it off, and spit it out. I teased him with the weed stalk again, and he nipped off another quarter-inch bit and spit it out. Over and over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11985,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}