{"id":1998,"date":"2011-11-30T02:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2011-11-30T02:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:16:58","slug":"its-beginning-to-get-close-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/its-beginning-to-get-close-to-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s beginning to&#8230; get close to Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing through some photos from last Christmas and found this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/1138324357_TH6do-L-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would own a dog less then 40 pounds one day, I would have LAUGHED OUT LOUD at them.<\/p>\n<p>I would have LAUGHED and LAUGHED.<\/p>\n<p>I did not like little dogs.<\/p>\n<p>And now, here I sit with my tiny Teagan, 2.5 pounds of pure joy. The\u00a0equivalent\u00a0of 2.5 pounds of butter, only he feels much lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Life changes. Attitudes change. Likes &amp; dislikes change.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing remains the same. If you know how to love, you&#8217;ll just never know what you could love one day! You may just surprise yourself!<\/p>\n<p>One day, you could end up loving an ugly, bug eyed, little rat of a&#8230; dog?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/1128890001_kNPzc-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And find that you actually think he&#8217;s pretty darn cute afterall!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/1138322415_ti7KW-L-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing through some photos from last Christmas and found this one. If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would own a dog less then 40 pounds one day, I would have LAUGHED OUT LOUD at them. I would have LAUGHED and LAUGHED. I did not like little dogs. And now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/its-beginning-to-get-close-to-christmas\/\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-homestead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}