{"id":3483,"date":"2011-02-22T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverdogprints.com\/photocardblog\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:05:14","slug":"best-of-om-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/best-of-om-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of OM :: The Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off with my family on a winter break for a week, but thought it would be a good idea to showcase the best of my OM [one moment] posts.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/best-of-OM131.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"best-of-OM\" width=\"165\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3476\" \/><br \/>\nOM is a meetup every Friday to reflect on one moment that is meaningful to you.  The moments the participants have shared are funny, poignant, silly, deep&#8230; a whole range of experiences and emotions that really showcase how much common ground we share.  I urge you to join this meetup, created by the simply awesome, Linda of <a href=\"http:\/\/alamodestuffblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">a la mode<\/a>.  I look forward to the writing and reading of moments every week and I hope you will too.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/riverdogprints.com\/photocardblog\/om-the-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Originally published April 30, 2010<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/scout-close1.jpg\" alt=\"scout-close\" title=\"scout-close\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2152\" \/><br \/>\nMy moment this week was a glimpse of reality.  This sweet girl, whom I&#8217;ve based my business around and who is part of the heart of our family, is getting old.  The kind of old where you look at the numbers of a life span and she is at the far end.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy girl, Scout, will be 9-years-old this August.  We&#8217;ve had her with us since she was just weeks old.  Other than the gray hair on her chin and sleeping more than she used to, I don&#8217;t really think about her getting older.  But this past week there was a palpable moment of knowing.  Knowing that this dog will not live forever.  And it breaks my heart a little just in the &#8220;knowing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBut we don&#8217;t live life that way.  That knowing moment should clarify the living part of life and help us celebrate every moment we can.  That&#8217;s how Scout lives life and how I aspire to.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off with my family on a winter break for a week, but thought it would be a good idea to showcase the best of my OM [one moment] posts. OM is a meetup every Friday to reflect on one moment that is meaningful to you. The moments the participants have shared are funny, poignant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-om-one-moment","category-ommeetup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9676,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}