{"id":6694,"date":"2007-02-25T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T01:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2018-06-21T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:24:03","slug":"ike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=6694","title":{"rendered":"Ike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ike came scratching at the front door early Sunday morning. He was busy trekking up and down the street looking for fun things to do and I guess he decided that our house looked warm and inviting. It was <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> who first noticed him; and then Stryder and I spent a good 20 minutes after that trying to catch him because I was afraid he was going to get hit by a car. <\/p>\n<p>Eventually he came close enough for me to whip my hand out and grab his harness; after this I endured a few moments of frenzied biting because the poor little guy was really scared. However, compared to Stryder and Kima&#8217;s play biting this little guy&#8217;s jaws did nothing more than tickle my arm.<\/p>\n<p>Ike spent a few scared moments in our backyard while I tried to find his owners. The tag on his collar had a phone number and address but it was so worn that I could only read a few numbers. I walked up and down the street, made phone calls and knocked on as many doors as I could. No one knew Ike so I had no choice but to phone the city.<\/p>\n<p>While I canvassed the neighbourhood, little Ike stood in the backyard shaking until that very magical moment when he met <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em>. From his arrival in the backyard on she repeatedly insisted that she go outside and see him. dP brought her outside so she could see the &#8220;doggie&#8221; and when Ike saw her he transformed from &#8220;scared dog&#8221; to &#8220;relaxed and playful dog.&#8221; He began bouncing around the backyard and used every opportunity he could to give <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> kisses.<\/p>\n<p><em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> and Ike spent the next hour in the backyard running, playing, chasing balls and giving\/receiving lots of hugs and kisses. When it was time for Ike to go home (the city found his owner) <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> asked: &#8220;Where is Ike going?&#8221; When we told <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> that Ike was going home she said: &#8220;<em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> want to go home too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nIke came scratching at the front door early Sunday morning. He was&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=6694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ike&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,475,16],"tags":[607],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-calgary","category-canada","tag-stryder-kima","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85037,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/85037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}