{"id":511,"date":"2011-09-01T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susieonastick.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:22:53","slug":"richmond-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Richmond, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: I&#8217;ve gone to the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Amy McCracken is an amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/3x3x365.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">writer<\/a> and one of my heroes. She&#8217;s Executive Director for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ral.org\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Animal League<\/a>, a terrific rescue organization to which unlucky animals are brought in the hopes their luck will change &#8211; and it usually does. I am a huge (clarify: H-U-G-E) fan of Ms. Amy, who today is holding up Susie next to one of the sweetest little faces I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time: Miss Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ral.org\/index.php\/adopt_a_pet\/adult_dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><!--more-->Miss Kentucky<\/a> is an adorable three-year-old beagle\/basset mix. \u00a0My two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangeswing.com\/?p=516\" target=\"_blank\">boys<\/a> are nearly the same age and mix as her. \u00a0And since I&#8217;ve longed for another girl in the house, I showed her gorgeous photos to Jack and Gus. \u00a0Needless to say, they were smitten. \u00a0Alas, the <a href=\"http:\/\/susieonastick.com\/?p=122\">man<\/a> I live with has decided otherwise &#8211; and I sadly informed Amy of this a few days back. \u00a0Since then, she&#8217;s been taunting me with gorgeous photos of Miss Kentucky, making me wonder if that man I live with might change his mind when he walks into the house and that sweet little thing is just&#8230; well, THERE. \u00a0You know, like all of a sudden. \u00a0And I have no. idea. how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I love you, Miss Kentucky!!! \u00a0You to Amy&#8230; you know that. \u00a0xos<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/susieonastick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amymccracken.jpg\" rel=\"facebox\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0for a larger photo.<\/p>\n<p>Amy also introduced Susie on a Stick to a sweet feline&#8230; click on the photo for a larger image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/susieonastick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amymccracken2.jpg\" rel=\"facebox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-523\" title=\"amymccracken2\" src=\"http:\/\/susieonastick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amymccracken2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amymccracken2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/amymccracken2-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please consider adopting a rescue animal: it will change your life. \u00a0And you might end up being rescued as well!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: I&#8217;ve gone to the dogs. Amy McCracken is an amazing writer and one of my heroes. She&#8217;s Executive Director for the Richmond Animal League, a terrific rescue organization to which unlucky animals are brought in the hopes their luck will change &#8211; and it usually does. I am a huge (clarify: H-U-G-E) fan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susieonastick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}