{"id":3895,"date":"2011-07-17T17:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2011-07-17T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T22:00:12","slug":"dear-lab-lets-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/3895\/dear-lab-lets-talk","title":{"rendered":"Dear Lab: Let&#8217;s Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you spent the weekend with two Border Collies does not mean you&#8217;re now a herding dog. Stop staring at everything that moves as if you are about to flank it. \u00a0You have yet to master such simple tasks as how to eat out of a dog bowl, so why don&#8217;t we stop sitting in fields all the time trying to proclaim ourselves to be &#8220;working, blue collar dogs.&#8221; Your work day consists of eating grass, throwing it up, and then looking at me with proud eyes as if I should be impressed that you &#8220;made something.&#8221; \u00a0Stick to your competencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/07\/20110627-DSC_3022.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3896 [ftmt_id]\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/07\/20110627-DSC_3022-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"Fields of Gold, Black Lab\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/07\/20110627-DSC_3022-640x424.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/07\/20110627-DSC_3022-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/07\/20110627-DSC_3022.jpg 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you spent the weekend with two Border Collies does not mean you&#8217;re now a herding dog. Stop staring at everything that moves as if you are about to flank it. \u00a0You have yet to master such simple tasks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/3895\/dear-lab-lets-talk\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[234,793,614,233,249,169,181,192,419,329],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife-photography","tag-animals","tag-black-labs","tag-blackwhite","tag-dogs","tag-farms","tag-fields","tag-funny","tag-grass","tag-humor","tag-pets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}