{"id":2049,"date":"2024-11-05T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:37:51","slug":"a-free-pass-into-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/a-free-pass-into-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"A free Pass into Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sad-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2050\" src=\"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sad-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sad-dog.jpg 720w, https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sad-dog-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sad-dog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sad-dog-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the saddest situations I know for any dog.\u00a0 To be tied up, or chained, outside, all year round.\u00a0 Not just freezing Winters but baking Summers also.<\/p>\n<p>I live the pain of animals.\u00a0 But particularly dogs.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because they are the embodiment of love.\u00a0 They bring it to us humans, unconditionally and with joy, often, no matter how we treat them.\u00a0 And despite their simple existence and unwavering loyalty, human owners still fail to learn.\u00a0 Perhaps they should be chained to a stake mid-Winter, I doubt they would last a single day, and yet, some of these poor creatures endure years and years of this neglect and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen this most prevalent in America.\u00a0 Whole neighbourhoods with chained dogs.\u00a0 Often these properties are low rent and their occupants oblivious to the misery that their canine protector experiences every day, deprived of reciprocated love, companionship, play and outings.\u00a0 It makes me so damned angry.<\/p>\n<p>It is our persistent failure to learn that love, compassion and empathy are not weakness.\u00a0\u00a0 And it is the human condition of entitled superiority that will ultimately turn around and bite us on the arse or worse, be our downfall as a species that only takes and uses, rather than gives and leaves.<\/p>\n<p>My heart is with all these beautiful four-legged furry souls, whose free pass into the warm glow of heavens green pastures is waiting for them, as I will be with open arms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the saddest situations I know for any dog.\u00a0 To be tied up, or chained, outside, all year round.\u00a0 Not just freezing Winters but baking Summers also. I live the pain of animals.\u00a0 But particularly dogs.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because they are the embodiment of love.\u00a0 They bring it to us humans, unconditionally and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}