{"id":280,"date":"2008-10-15T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:02:03","slug":"karen-answers-cynthia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Karen Answers Cynthia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/14\/qa-with-karen-question-1\/#comment-268\">Comment by Cynthia on October 14, 2008 5:16 pm <\/a><br \/>\nKaren, I was just wondering if you have any pets now?  I have found that my two Yorkies are so healing for me and give me such unconditional love and joy. I also noticed my dogs know when we I need a good laugh or just some nice licks on the face when I am feeling a little sad or lonely. Blessings to you and thank you again for this wonderful site.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Cynthia,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing. No, I don&#8217;t own any pets at this time.  I&#8217;ve heard that a pet can give unconditional love and joy.  I am glad to hear that you have two Yorkies that provide you with this. For me, it wouldn&#8217;t be fair to own a pet if I weren&#8217;t able to be home enough to give the attention it would need and deserve.<\/p>\n<p>When I feel sad and lonely, I turn on a funny show, listen to music, read, or call a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Cynthia on October 14, 2008 5:16 pm Karen, I was just wondering if you have any pets now? I have found that my two Yorkies are so healing for me and give me such unconditional love and joy. I also noticed my dogs know when we I need a good laugh or just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}