{"id":949,"date":"2008-06-24T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2008-06-24T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T11:25:00","slug":"serendipity-in-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/24\/serendipity-in-central-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity in Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SGA5F0ORFnI\/AAAAAAAABrY\/k1rNcNphaFs\/s1600-h\/scheki.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SGA5F0ORFnI\/AAAAAAAABrY\/k1rNcNphaFs\/s200\/scheki.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I met the most amazing woman, and the most amazing 3-legged dog, yesterday in the park coming back from a visit to the place I&#8217;ve come to call the fertility farm (alert! I am NOT fertility blogging, just mentioning where I was coming from is all).  These two have a pretty amazing story, and, as it turns out, Scheki (the dog) and Lori (the human) were <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/entertainment\/scheki.dog.israel.2.654433.html\">profiled in April on WCBS.<\/a>  Schecki is short for &#8220;Schekayanu,&#8221; the Jewish blessing of gratitude for reaching a happy occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Finding Schecki, a victim of a bombing most likely, in Israel was a happy occasion, explains Lori in the clip.  She also says: &#8220;Scheki has taught us to have this strength and love of life and not to look at what we don&#8217;t have, but rather look at what we do have in life, and embrace it with a passion and exuberance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amen (and woof) to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met the most amazing woman, and the most amazing 3-legged dog, yesterday in the park coming back from a visit to the place I&#8217;ve come to call the fertility farm (alert! I am NOT fertility blogging, just mentioning where I was coming from is all). These two have a pretty amazing story, and, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}