{"id":164,"date":"2006-10-09T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-10-09T19:39:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T00:39:47","slug":"the-time-is-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/the-time-is-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time is Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well there you go, another year at the Royal has come and gone.\u00a0 It was a good time, I will grudgingly admit.\u00a0 However, we must never, ever, ever talk about the food, or consequent judging results, on this site.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 Never ever.\u00a0 For that matter, let&#8217;s not even talk about the events leading up to or including the contest.\u00a0 Just drop it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for my Weekly Update, the Royal consumed my entire weekend, starting\u00a0 Thursday afternoon and ending Sunday morning.\u00a0 Since I have banned all conversation relative to said event, that doesn&#8217;t leave just a whole lot of material to work with.\u00a0 I did venture out late Sunday morning to have a little breakfast down at Sharp&#8217;s, but I was continually bothered by the uncomfortable feeling that everybody around me was whispering negative things about me under their breath.\u00a0 So I took half of my biscuits and gravy to go and went home, where I huddled in front of the TV for the rest of the day and watched my Fantasy Football team get crushed.\u00a0 I think I might be in a bio-rhythm slump or something.\u00a0 Seems like more of a friggin&#8217; flat line actually.<\/p>\n<p>I am still in something of a post-weekend funk, but just for the sake of throwing in something positive,\u00a0I&#8217;ll mention\u00a0that the dogs started working with a new trainer this evening.\u00a0 We signed them up for <a title=\"Bark Busters\" href=\"http:\/\/barkbusters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bark Busters<\/a> a few weeks ago, and tonight was our first session.\u00a0 I thought it went very well, aside from the fact that the guy was here for 3 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 Good for the dogs, but didn&#8217;t\u00a0mesh too well with my documented 20 minute attention span.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say lil&#8217; Belle made some pretty big strides, especially in the leash-walking department.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a pretty good &#8220;puller&#8221; on the leash; makes things kind of hard with another dog and a bum shoulder.\u00a0 He slapped a choke chain on her and showed us how to use it, and she&#8217;s (almost) golden.\u00a0 It was\u00a0practically Dog Whisperer-esque.\u00a0 And, in an unexpected bonus, he thought Gabe was such a good boy he wouldn&#8217;t even take our money for him.\u00a0 Ding ding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well there you go, another year at the Royal has come and gone.\u00a0 It was a good time, I will grudgingly admit.\u00a0 However, we must never, ever, ever talk about the food, or consequent judging results, on this site.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 Never ever.\u00a0 For that matter, let&#8217;s not even talk about the events leading up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}