{"id":179,"date":"2008-03-15T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T18:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-03-15T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T22:31:32","slug":"my-first-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"My First Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_5132a.jpg\" alt=\"img_5132a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just four days after I was taken from my family, The Girl and Bossman thought it was time to give me a bath.  I guess they didn&#8217;t appreciate my dusty, rolling-around-in-the-dirt look from back when I was with my brothers and sisters.  Anyway, this so-called bath was the crappiest experience EVAR.<\/p>\n<p>First, they dump you into a slippery white tub with completely no traction for my paws and nails.  As I scramble around in the tub, they turn on the water, which looks like Niagra Falls compared to my 5-pound puppy size.   Then they dump water on top of my head and pretend to give me a massage with the bubble concoction they call soap, which is supposed to make me smell better.  Personally I think my au naturale scent is the best.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_5131a.jpg\" alt=\"img_5131a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now take a look at the huge maniacal grin on The Girl&#8217;s face.  Doesn&#8217;t she look like she&#8217;s enjoying my suffering a little too much?  Can&#8217;t you see that I&#8217;m dying here?!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_5133a.jpg\" alt=\"img_5133a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a close-up of me in my wet, miserable state and trying to escape.  Won&#8217;t someone come to this poor little pup&#8217;s rescue?!  And so my fear of water begins.  I know that Shibas notoriously hate water but this certainly doesn&#8217;t help matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just four days after I was taken from my family, The Girl and Bossman thought it was time to give me a bath. I guess they didn&#8217;t appreciate my dusty, rolling-around-in-the-dirt look from back when I was with my brothers and sisters. Anyway, this so-called bath was the crappiest experience EVAR. First, they dump you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/?p=179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My First Nightmare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppy-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makakoa.beakatude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}