{"id":581,"date":"2008-12-31T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:14:25","slug":"the-kissing-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"The kissing wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/kiss.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285814068096482258\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/kiss-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">How quickly a kiss can turn&#8230;<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nokiss.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285813973996288098\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nokiss-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">into something not so sweet.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">There was surprisingly little outward agression within the packs, but like any happy family, each member knows their place. Mostly they seemed to communicate with their bodies; their posture, their eyes, the subtle showing of teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of like any of us before coffee in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that this *kissing* among wolves is a left-over submissive behavior, a relic of their puppy days begging to be fed. A behavior that we witness in our couch-potato dogs, still. These two were siblings, if I remember correctly, and both seemed to relish the mouth to mouth contact.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How quickly a kiss can turn&#8230;into something not so sweet. \ud83d\ude09 There was surprisingly little outward agression within the packs, but like any happy family, each member knows their place. Mostly they seemed to communicate with their bodies; their posture, their eyes, the subtle showing of teeth. Sort of like any of us before coffee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The kissing wolves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}