{"id":1387,"date":"2004-11-15T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2004-11-15T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T15:42:20","slug":"dancing-with-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"dancing with dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really for the benefit of Ben Hammersley I would like to record that I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryray.co.uk\/freestyle.html\">Mary Ray,<\/a> the woman who dances with dogs, in action at a dog show yesterday. The only comparably grotesque performance I have ever seen involved pingpong balls; it seems that television producers agree:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p> Look at how much coverage <span class=\"caps\">HTM <\/span>has had &#8211; two slots on Jim Davidson&#8217;s <em>Generation Game, Blue Peter, Five Alive<\/em> on <span class=\"caps\">C5, <\/span><em>Richard and Judy Show, The Big Breakfast<\/em> and numerous local news items on regional programmes, plus two spreads in national newspapers. And, of course, ten minutes on the <span class=\"caps\">BBC <\/span>prime time Sunday evening <em>Best in Show Night from Crufts,<\/em> which included Mary&#8217;s routine in the Best in Show Ring.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really for the benefit of Ben Hammersley I would like to record that I saw Mary Ray, the woman who dances with dogs, in action at a dog show yesterday. The only comparably grotesque performance I have ever seen involved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}