{"id":90,"date":"2012-08-08T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-10-01T02:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:59:03","slug":"sadies-first-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Sadie’s first adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Maybe she was bored. Or wanted to get to know the new neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Maybe, disoriented, she was trying to find her way back to the shelter and a life she knew.<\/p>\n

Most probably she was just terrified. <\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, last Thursday she bolted out the front door, took a left at the end of the driveway and disappeared for good into a steamy August morning.<\/p>\n

We searched on foot, on bikes, in the car. Despondent, I called out to her in unfamiliar places, my voice still unknown to her, using a name she hadn’t yet learned.<\/p>\n

It was hopeless.<\/p>\n

We put up signs. We waited. I walked the neighborhood for the tenth time. Shelter volunteers that had grown to love her in her time with them came out to help us look for her. Nothing.<\/p>\n

Until the phone rang that evening and someone had rescued her, yet again. It was incomprehensible to me that she’d been found; I thought I would never see her again.<\/p>\n

How she spent that day, we’ll never know… how she navigated two very, very busy roads without being hit to end up 3 miles away… how a Good Samaritan convinced her to stop in her running long enough to be caught…<\/p>\n

I am so thankful for this happy ending and for this dog I barely know and already can’t help but love…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to lose a new dog in less than 4 days Maybe she was bored. Or wanted to get to know the new neighborhood. Maybe, disoriented, she was trying to find her way back to the shelter and a life she knew. Most probably she was just terrified. Whatever the reason, last Thursday she bolted … Continue reading Sadie’s first adventure<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}