{"id":24536,"date":"2014-11-19T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wdie.wedding-dates.com\/?p=24536"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:39:41","slug":"falling-love-like-owning-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/falling-love-like-owning-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about this for an alternative, but touching reading. It would be a lovely addition to a humanist wedding or a traditional church wedding. If you&#8217;re a couple of dog lovers, this is perfect for you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24537\" title=\"How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2014\/11\/dawg.jpg\" alt=\"How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dawg.jpg 640w, https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dawg-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First of all, it\u2019s a big responsibility,<br \/>\nespecially in a city like New York.<br \/>\nSo think long and hard before deciding on love.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:<br \/>\nwhen you\u2019re walking down the street late at night<br \/>\nand you have a leash on love<br \/>\nain\u2019t no one going to mess with you.<br \/>\nBecause crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.<br \/>\nWho knows what love could do in its own defense?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On cold winter nights, love is warm.<br \/>\nIt lies between you and lives and breathes<br \/>\nand makes funny noises.<br \/>\nLove wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.<br \/>\nIt needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Love doesn\u2019t like being left alone for long.<br \/>\nBut come home and love is always happy to see you.<br \/>\nIt may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,<br \/>\nbut you can never be mad at love for long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is love good all the time? No! No!<br \/>\nLove can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Love makes messes.<br \/>\nLove leaves you little surprises here and there.<br \/>\nLove needs lots of cleaning up after.<br \/>\nSomethimes you just want to get love fixed.<br \/>\nSometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper<br \/>\nand swat love on the nose,<br \/>\nnot so much to cause pain,<br \/>\njust to let love know\u00a0<em>Don\u2019t you ever do that again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes love just wants to go out for a nice long walk.<br \/>\nBecause love loves exercise. It will run you around the block<br \/>\nand leave you panting, breathless. Pull you in different directions<br \/>\nat once, or wind itself around and around you<br \/>\nuntil you\u2019re all wound up and you cannot move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But love makes you meet people wherever you go.<br \/>\nPeople who have nothing in common but love<br \/>\nstop and talk to each other on the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Throw things away and love will bring them back,<br \/>\nagain, and again, and again.<br \/>\nBut most of all, love needs love, lots of it.<br \/>\nAnd in return, love loves you and never stops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;\u00a0<em>Taylor Mali<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How about this for an alternative, but touching reading. It would be a lovely addition to a humanist wedding or a traditional church wedding. If you&#8217;re a couple of dog lovers, this is perfect for you! How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog First of all, it\u2019s a big responsibility, especially in a city like New York. So think long and hard before deciding on love. On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security: when [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":24537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1140],"tags":[1462,1336],"class_list":["post-24536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-ceremony","tag-love-2","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}