{"id":253,"date":"2003-11-20T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/music-to-soothe\/"},"modified":"2003-11-20T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T15:15:05","slug":"music-to-soothe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/music-to-soothe\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Soothe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think dogs appreciate music?  I recently bought myself some new piano music &#8211; Jim Brickman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimbrickman.com\/hismusic.htm\">Peace<\/a> &#8211; and as I was playing through it last night it got me wondering.  My dogs seem to completely settle down when I start playing piano, even if they are in the midst of puppy &#8220;zoomies&#8221;.  My cousin&#8217;s dog even howls along to the radio whenever Celene Dion&#8217;s &#8220;My Heart Will Go On&#8221; comes on&#8230;of course, we&#8217;re not sure if it&#8217;s because he likes that song or hates it!<\/p>\n<p>Music is such an integral part of my life that I would like to think that the little doggy sighs as they lay down in the living room doorway are due to an appreciation of the music.  Either that, or they&#8217;re sighing over the fact that I&#8217;m in a room they&#8217;re not allowed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think dogs appreciate music? I recently bought myself some new piano music &#8211; Jim Brickman&#8217;s Peace &#8211; and as I was playing through it last night it got me wondering. My dogs seem to completely settle down when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}