{"id":1064,"date":"2016-09-19T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:30:14","slug":"september-19-day-one-of-national-dog-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"September 19 \u2013 Day one of national dog week."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year marks the 75th annual National Dog Week. It barks off this\u00a0week running\u00a0Sept. 19\u00a0<\/strong>through Sept. 25.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>
This year’s theme is “Man’s Best Friend”,\u00a0which is a great description of our relationship with dogs.\u00a0It is a chance to get back on track and show how much you truly appreciate\u00a0your dog this week.
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National Dog Week was founded in 1928 by Captain Will Judy, a\u00a0former publisher of Dog World Magazine and a dog judge. He\u00a0created National Dog Week to educate all dog owners in their\u00a0responsibilities to their pets and to their communities. The origin\u00a0of “man’s best friend” is alleged to have come from a closing\u00a0argument given by Sen. George Graham Vest. Vest was representing\u00a0a man whose dog was shot and killed by a neighbor. In his closing statement, Vest gave what has become the\u00a0famous “Tribute to the American Dog.” The speech was so\u00a0powerful that it won the case. Here is an excerpt from this\u00a0famous speech that truly shows how much a\u00a0dog means to his owner, “The one\u00a0absolutely unselfish friend that man can\u00a0have in this selfish world, the one that never\u00a0deserts him, the one that never proves\u00a0ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.”\u00a0 Definitely take the time out this week to give\u00a0your dog the treatment that they deserve.
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So this week do something extra nice for a dog. If you don’t own a dog, you can always make a donation to a no-kill animal shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 This year marks the 75th annual National Dog Week. It barks off this\u00a0week running\u00a0Sept. 19\u00a0through Sept. 25.\u00a0This year’s theme is “Man’s Best Friend”,\u00a0which is a great description of our relationship with dogs.\u00a0It is a chance to get back on track and show how much you truly appreciate\u00a0your dog this week. National Dog Week was … Continue reading September 19 \u2013 Day one of national dog week.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}