{"id":295,"date":"2021-12-20T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/20\/biscuit-morning-trail-board-meeting\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:30:00","slug":"biscuit-morning-trail-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/20\/biscuit-morning-trail-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Biscuit and the Morning Trail. Our Board Meeting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning Biscuit and I walk the creek path like shareholders inspecting morale. He sniffs every bush with due diligence. I think about the day ahead and occasionally about a shopping cart someone left in the water last spring.<\/p>\n<p>Dog park politics are more complex than HOA bylaws, but the trail is democracy at its best: nod, pass, keep moving. Biscuit remains neutral. I admire that.<\/p>\n<p>These walks are where I rehearse dinner toasts, mutter not-financial-advice disclaimers, and notice what season we are actually in\u2014not what the store displays say. Yesterday a heron stood in the shallows like a patient accountant.<\/p>\n<p>Get a dog or a neighbor or a bench. You need one daily meeting that cannot be rescheduled by email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dog does not care about my portfolio. He cares about squirrels. It keeps me honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-living"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}