{"id":362,"date":"2006-06-30T10:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T10:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/30\/world-cup-dogblogging\/"},"modified":"2006-06-30T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T10:43:56","slug":"world-cup-dogblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/30\/world-cup-dogblogging\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Dog-Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing about soccer is that even pets can get in on the game:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-4fc58cfa3da9ea075b347ee9be23ac1f-sm_cube_soccer.jpg\" alt=\"i-4fc58cfa3da9ea075b347ee9be23ac1f-sm_cube_soccer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, Emmy shows off her ability to bat things around on the floor, in honor of the Germany-Argentina game coming up today. The toy in question is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustercube.com\/\">Buster Cube<\/a>, which we heartily endorse&#8211; it&#8217;s a plastic cube with a hole in one side and a chamber inside to hold food. As it gets knocked end over end, every now and then some kibble works its way out, and the dog gets to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>Humans love it because there&#8217;s no human intervention required: we put a handful of kibble in, and she bats it around the living room for ten minutes before it needs a refill. Dogs love it because, well, kibble! If it made squeaking noises when  hit, it would be the perfect toy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing about soccer is that even pets can get in on the game: Here, Emmy shows off her ability to bat things around on the floor, in honor of the Germany-Argentina game coming up today. The toy in question is a Buster Cube, which we heartily endorse&#8211; it&#8217;s a plastic cube with a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/30\/world-cup-dogblogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Cup Dog-Blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}