{"id":1954,"date":"2011-05-08T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2011-05-07T22:44:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T02:44:46","slug":"dogs-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1954","title":{"rendered":"Dogs of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maxie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Maxie\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maxie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From a\u00a0<a title=\"Hero Dogs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/susanorlean\/2011\/05\/hero-dogs.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on the <em>New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s Free Range blog:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The  greatest feat, though, was performed by what were called &#8216;mercy dogs&#8217; in the First World War. These dogs walked among the troops on a  battlefield, after the fighting had simmered down, carrying saddlebags  of first-aid supplies. Wounded soldiers could call the dogs over and  then help themselves whatever they needed. Those who were more gravely  wounded could call the dogs over so they could embrace them and have  their company while they died. A dog can do that, and would do that,  with all its heart, and with tender patience. Nothing will ever be  better, or more perfect, than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maxie.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a\u00a0post on the New Yorker&#8216;s Free Range blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}