{"id":881,"date":"2012-07-11T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=881"},"modified":"2012-10-08T23:28:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T04:28:53","slug":"joy-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=881","title":{"rendered":"Joy the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarkham\/4123155201\/\" title=\"Meet Joy by pmarkham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2626\/4123155201_8a0d979c54.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Meet Joy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joy was a retired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpingpaws.org\" title=\"Helping Paws\" target=\"_blank\">Helping Paws<\/a> service dog.  She worked for over seven years for a woman with ALS.  She was retired in October of 2009 when an autoimmune disorder destroyed her retinas and robbed her of her vision.  I adopted her shortly after that and transitioned her from a working service dog to a retired dog with a disability of her own.  She made the transition beautifully!  <\/p>\n<p>Her time with me was short though.  In April of 2010 she died suddenly of a ruptured hemangiosarcoma tumor that had been undiagnosed.  She died in my arms.  The whole story of that day can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=747\" title=\"Losing Joy\" target=\"_blank\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy was a retired Helping Paws service dog. She worked for over seven years for a woman with ALS. She was retired in October of 2009 when an autoimmune disorder destroyed her retinas and robbed her of her vision. I adopted her shortly after that and transitioned her from a working service dog to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":945,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-881","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/881\/revisions\/949"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}