{"id":8950,"date":"2014-09-04T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2014-09-04T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:45:28","slug":"walking-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS WALKING THE DOG?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those vignettes of life. We were to meet Stefan at a coffee shop in Silverlake in Los Angeles. We arrived a little early; I dropped Bernadette and went to park the car. When I arrived at the coffee shop Bernadette had already engaged someone in conversation. The woman had a dog named &#8220;Emily&#8221;. \u00a0While the coffee shop had a dog friendly policy there was a man who clearly was disturbed by Emily; especially when she became excited over the attention she was getting. \u00a0I suggested I take Emily for a walk to let her calm down. When I returned with Emily, it was clear that Stefan was in another part of the coffee shop and we had not seen him. However one of Stefan&#8217;s friends saw me walking Emily and said: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that your father? and does he have a dog? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8951\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/silverlake-8-7-14-22780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8951\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/silverlake-8-7-14-22780-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"EMILY AND BERNADETTE\" width=\"558\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/silverlake-8-7-14-22780-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/silverlake-8-7-14-22780-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/silverlake-8-7-14-22780.jpg 1794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EMILY AND BERNADETTE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those vignettes of life. We were to meet Stefan at a coffee shop in Silverlake in Los Angeles. We arrived a little early; I dropped Bernadette and went to park the car. When I arrived at the coffee shop Bernadette had already engaged someone in conversation. The woman had a dog named &#8220;Emily&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO IS WALKING THE DOG?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,233,74,1427],"tags":[2117,2118],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-los-angeles","category-stephen-lirakis","category-travel","tag-silverlake","tag-silverlake-conservancy-of-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}