{"id":3294,"date":"2010-01-03T06:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2010-01-03T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T12:06:56","slug":"sprite-is-becoming-a-little-more-demanding-as-the-years-pass-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/sprite-is-becoming-a-little-more-demanding-as-the-years-pass-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprite is Becoming a Little More Demanding as the Years Pass On&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sort of odd how our &#8220;puppy&#8221; Sprite seems to feel most comfortable when all four of us are home. She really seems to relax. She sort of has that &#8220;all is well in the world&#8221; behavior when all four of her humans\u00a0are home. Of course, now that she is fifteen, it is\u00a0like having<strong> a very old<\/strong> person living with us. We have to plan all of our excursions so that someone is home after being away for four hours&#8230; Someone has to be around to pick her up and let her sit in her favorite places&#8230; namely my seat of the couch and our bed.<\/p>\n<p>Sprite seems to have an internal clock going on at all hours of the day&#8230; Unfortunately, her internal\u00a0clock\u00a0is moving everything up earlier and earlier. She now wants to eat her dinner at 3:30. She lets us know when it is 3:30 (almost on the dot!) She also expects to go up to bed no later than 7:00, and when that time isn&#8217;t met, she whines and complains until we carry her upstairs to her throne (our bed.)<\/p>\n<p>And, she has become very interested in geometry&#8230; always wanting to lay perpendicular to my husband and me&#8230; wanting both of us to sleep on <strong>our respective edges of the bed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sprite does indeed rule our home&#8230; with her demands and expectations. But, we all love her, so we &#8220;Make it so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Our daughter left yesterday, and already I can see how much Sprite misses her!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sort of odd how our &#8220;puppy&#8221; Sprite seems to feel most comfortable when all four of us are home. She really seems to relax. She sort of has that &#8220;all is well in the world&#8221; behavior when all four of her humans\u00a0are home. Of course, now that she is fifteen, it is\u00a0like having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-R8","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}