{"id":742,"date":"2008-07-07T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:33","slug":"a-luka-story-without-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"A Luka story without photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pureflorida.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/bear-and-gumbo-meet-terrifying.html\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> from Floridacracker of his two (!) Lab puppies reminded me of a story I&#8217;d been meaning to share, but which I haven&#8217;t been able to get a decent pic to illustrate with.<\/p>\n<p>Luka is a couch hog, but not in the normal way one might expect from a 100 lb. Lab. Instead he likes to perch himself on the back of the couch, in front of the window, where the view and the breeze are best. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=913\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Here&#8217;s an old pic of him from Christmastime<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> in the very same pose, so just imagine the scene without the Xmas decorations and 40 lbs. more Luka squishing those cushions down.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; outside the window now is a red Chinese Hibiscus standard that had seemed to be drawing the attention of a hummingbird or two. Encouraged, I added a small hummingbird feeder to the pot thinking I would be able to enjoy close up views of the hummers at the feeder. Not so.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s taken to barking at any sweet hummingbird that dares to feed there! To begin with he seemed confused by them, almost thinking they were a really big bumblebee, but the zooming and dashing of a curious (or annoyed) hummer is too much for him to take. He scares them all away. Silly dog!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video from Floridacracker of his two (!) Lab puppies reminded me of a story I&#8217;d been meaning to share, but which I haven&#8217;t been able to get a decent pic to illustrate with. Luka is a couch hog, but not in the normal way one might expect from a 100 lb. Lab. Instead he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Luka story without photos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}