{"id":1270,"date":"2018-01-17T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bright-spot.org\/blog\/from-a-106-year-old-hospice-patient-dogs-and-longevity-2\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:18:51","slug":"from-a-106-year-old-hospice-patient-dogs-and-longevity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/from-a-106-year-old-hospice-patient-dogs-and-longevity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From a 106 year old hospice patient: Dogs and Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a 106 year old hospice patient: Dogs and Longevity<\/p>\n<p>For a period of three years, my wonderful dog James and I visited hospice patients at a nursing care facility. Even though I had spent over twenty years visiting the elderly in assisted living facilities, hospice care took our visiting to an entirely different level. When our first patient died, I wept into the phone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/sayhellospot.net\/our-106-year-old-hospice-patient-revealed-her-secret-to-longevity-its-the-dogs-we-always-had-dogs-all-kinds-of-dogs-they-made-us-feel-happy-and-young\">Read More &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sayhellospot.net\/our-106-year-old-hospice-patient-revealed-her-secret-to-longevity-its-the-dogs-we-always-had-dogs-all-kinds-of-dogs-they-made-us-feel-happy-and-young\">From a 106 year old hospice patient: Dogs and Longevity<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sayhellospot.net\">Say Hello Spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Say Hello Spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a 106 year old hospice patient: Dogs and Longevity For a period of three years, my wonderful dog James and I visited hospice patients at a nursing care facility. Even though I had spent over twenty years visiting the elderly in assisted living facilities,&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/from-a-106-year-old-hospice-patient-dogs-and-longevity-2\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bright-spot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}