{"id":347,"date":"2007-08-11T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2007-08-11T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T13:10:00","slug":"more-about-dogs-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"More about dogs here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned that I used to walk with my dog in the woods when I was little. My teacher asked me if that was to protect me from dangerous animals. He was rather surprised to find that there really isn&#8217;t anything dangerous in the Virginia woods (outside of a rabid raccoon or something). I then went on to explain the common English phrase &#8220;Man&#8217;s best friend.&#8221; He flatly rejected that, citing some personal experience of a dog biting a man he knew. I admitted that dogs can be dangerous, but that most of them are not. He then told me that if a dog licks his clothes, he has to wash them 7 times, once with sand, before he will be allowed to pray in them again. That&#8217;s the level of disgust people have for dogs here&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>tags technorati : <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/yemen\" rel=\"tag\">yemen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dog\" rel=\"tag\">dog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dogs\" rel=\"tag\">dogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/islam\" rel=\"tag\">islam<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/muslim\" rel=\"tag\">muslim<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/middle\" rel=\"tag\">middle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/east\" rel=\"tag\">east<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned that I used to walk with my dog in the woods when I was little. My teacher asked me if that was to protect me from dangerous animals. He was rather surprised to find that there really isn&#8217;t anything dangerous in the Virginia woods (outside of a rabid raccoon or something). I then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}