{"id":1582,"date":"2009-04-08T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?page_id=1582"},"modified":"2009-04-08T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:51:00","slug":"murphy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/dogs\/murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Murphy O.<\/h2>\n<p>a.ka. Bailey, Destructo-Boy, Mr. Murphy, Murph-Dog<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Early Months&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We found Murphy at the shelter on March 1, 2003.  He had been abandoned by the side of the road, rescued by a family who tried very hard to find his owners, then dropped off at a small shelter.  Finally, he was moved to the shelter we found him in.  It was love at first sight.  Now I ask you, how could anyone abandon this sweet little pup?<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/dogs\/murphy\/murphy_day_one.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/dogs\/murphy\/murphy_kitchen_rug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For all of his hardships during the first six months of his life, from day one Murphy has been a wonderful dog.  He still wasn&#8217;t completely housetrained, and hadn&#8217;t grown out of the puppy chewing phase, but he has been remarkably obedient and extraordinarily sweet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/dogs\/murphy\/chewing_stick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for what he is, all we know for sure is that he is definitely part lab.  The other part(s)?  Maybe beagle (he has a deep, booming bark that is completely at odds with his small-ish stature).  Perhaps daschound (he&#8217;s really got the face of a daschound)!  He could very well be a Heinz 57, with a little of a lot of things.  Whatever he is, he&#8217;s definitely a character!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/dogs\/murphy\/green_eyes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/dogs\/murphy\/being_carried.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy O. a.ka. Bailey, Destructo-Boy, Mr. Murphy, Murph-Dog The Early Months&#8230; We found Murphy at the shelter on March 1, 2003. He had been abandoned by the side of the road, rescued by a family who tried very hard to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1575,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}