{"id":3849,"date":"2012-12-19T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:38:48","slug":"the-power-of-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/the-power-of-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tEarlier this week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-local-comfort-dogs-taken-to-connecticut-after-school-massacre-20121216,0,7533873.story\">Chicago News Tribune<\/a> posted an article about the power of dogs in trying times. A team of golden retrievers was sent to Newtown to comfort community members during the traumatic and trying times. When the charities&#8217; dogs are not responding to a national tragedy, they often visit people in hospitals, nursing homes and parks.<\/p>\n<p>We see the power of dogs everyday with the wonderful work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rittertherapydog\">Ritter<\/a>, our therapy dog in training, does with our kids in therapy!<\/p>\n<p>As the article stated, \u201cDogs are non-judgmental. They are loving. They are accepting of anyone, it creates the atmosphere for people to share.\u201d We&#8217;re happy to see the people of Newtown getting some comfort from some wonderful four legged friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3850\" title=\"comfort-dogs\" src=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chi-local-comfort-dogs-taken-to-connecticut-af-001.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the Chicago News Tribune posted an article about the power of dogs in trying times. A team of golden retrievers was sent to Newtown to comfort community members during the traumatic and trying times. When the charities&#8217; dogs are not responding to a national tragedy, they often visit people in hospitals, nursing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[969,532,471,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}