{"id":1965,"date":"2022-04-06T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2022-04-06T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:19:15","slug":"lessons-from-animal-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Animal Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pa-2021-022101.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>What my dog taught me today. Some days I can be driven to distraction. Actually, the truth is\u2026MOST days I can be. And I realized that today when I was settled in and relaxed over a task that can\u2019t be rushed through. I tend to rush through my tasks. RushRushRush, I feel like we\u2019ve been conditioned to rush. But I notice that when I slow down and can really give the specific task the attention it deserves, it can actually be an enjoyable thing. I learned this from my dog, Oonagh. A lot of nervous energy she has and she feeds off mine. And once I do actually settle down to the task at hand, she settles down to what she believes is her task \u2014 keeping me settled, and keeping a lookout on the world through the windows so we don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What my dog taught me today. Some days I can be driven to distraction. Actually, the truth is\u2026MOST days I can be. And I realized that today when I was settled in and relaxed over a task that can\u2019t be rushed through. I tend to rush through my tasks. RushRushRush, I feel like we\u2019ve been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lessons from Animal Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}