{"id":300,"date":"2004-06-28T06:46:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=300"},"modified":"2004-06-28T06:46:53","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T14:46:53","slug":"therapy-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/06\/28\/therapy-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"piano_man_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/piano_man_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nDiane and Dan joined ( I know, those companion fees &#8230;) Flo and me for Rick\u00c3\u00ads June recital. T\u00c3\u00adwas better than May, with a larger crowd (not just by three, Susan), and I\u00c3\u00adm convinced had he a more elastic audience, there would have been a standing ovation. Among others, Rick played Strauss,   Beethoven\u00c3\u00ads &#8220;Rage Over A Lost Penny,&#8221; Puccini\u00c3\u00ads &#8220;Gianni Schicchi&#8221; and Smetana\u00c3\u00ads &#8220;Moldau.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paxie.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/paxie.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"262\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nHowever, the hit of the day was Dan&#8217;s dog,  Paxie, who circulated around the crowd and then spent most of the concert on Flo\u00c3\u00ads lap.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flo_sitting_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/flo_sitting_sm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nFlo led Dan on a tour of Concord Park ( &#8220;It&#8217;s very well laid out.&#8221; &#8220;There are elevators everywhere.&#8221;), ending in her apartment.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/flo_sitting.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane and Dan joined ( I know, those companion fees &#8230;) Flo and me for Rick\u00c3\u00ads June recital. T\u00c3\u00adwas better than May, with a larger crowd (not just by three, Susan), and I\u00c3\u00adm convinced had he a more elastic audience, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/06\/28\/therapy-dog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}