{"id":1396,"date":"2008-02-12T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/best-in-show\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:03:44","slug":"best-in-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/best-in-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Best in Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the last half of a fascinating sporting event this evening:\u00a0 The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westminsterkennelclub.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westminster Dog Show<\/a>.\u00a0 Last night I was hanging on the Spurs every play, but tonight, I tuned into the Dog Show.\u00a0 I love the working dogs, and fortunately, I got to watch them compete tonight.\u00a0 Loved the Great Dane, the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, the Bernese Mountain Dog, and the St. Bernard.\u00a0 The Weimaraner was superb.\u00a0 There were several other simply wonderful dogs &#8212; most of them in the Pedigree commercials for shelter dogs &#8212; this girl is gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>And who could resist the crowd favorite:\u00a0 Uno the Beagle &#8212; 2008&#8217;s Best in Show.\u00a0 Upon learning he was a winner, Uno did what all self-respecting beagles do:\u00a0 He barked and bayed.\u00a0 He stood proudly for the crowd&#8217;s standing ovation.\u00a0 Uno is one handsome beagle.\u00a0 This marks the first time a beagle has won Best in Show &#8212; it&#8217;s also the first time a beagle has won the hound group*.<\/p>\n<p>*Corrected to:\u00a0 &#8220;since 1939&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the last half of a fascinating sporting event this evening:\u00a0 The Westminster Dog Show.\u00a0 Last night I was hanging on the Spurs every play, but tonight, I tuned into the Dog Show.\u00a0 I love the working dogs, and fortunately, I got to watch them compete tonight.\u00a0 Loved the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/best-in-show\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14634,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/14634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}