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The dogs in our neighborhood are very obedient. Tell them to \u201cSit,\u201d and they do. Tell them to \u201cStay,\u201d and they do. <\/p>\nThe dogs in our neighborhood are very obedient. Tell them to \u201cSit,\u201d and they do. Tell them to \u201cStay,\u201d and they do. <\/p>\n
For hours. <\/p>\n
Days. <\/p>\n
Even years at a time.<\/p>\n
OK, so maybe our real dogs don\u2019t. But our statues do. We can always count on them to stay right where we put them.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s a good quality in a statue.<\/p>\n
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* Follow along with me on the Year of the Dog challenge<\/a> — a new dog-related post every Walkabout Wednesday. Or, feel free to read Down Girl and Sit<\/a> any day of the week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The dogs in our neighborhood are very obedient. Tell them to \u201cSit,\u201d and they do. Tell them to \u201cStay,\u201d and they do. For hours. Days. Even years at a time. OK, so maybe our real dogs don\u2019t. But our statues … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[5,12,26,56],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-dog","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday","tag-year-of-the-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}