{"id":7019,"date":"2026-01-13T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:28:41","slug":"washing-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7019","title":{"rendered":"Washing The Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"254\">A seven-year-old boy walked into a corner grocery store and picked up a box of laundry detergent.<br data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"193\" \/>The grocer smiled and asked if he had a lot of laundry to do.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"303\">\u201cNo,\u201d the boy said. \u201cI\u2019m going to wash my dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"458\">Alarmed, the grocer warned him the detergent was too powerful and could make the dog very sick\u2014even kill him. The boy ignored the advice, paid, and left.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"553\">A week later, the boy returned to buy candy.<br data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"507\" \/>The grocer gently asked how the dog was doing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"592\">\u201cOh, he died,\u201d the boy said casually.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"670\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d the grocer replied. \u201cI tried to warn you about that detergent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"672\" data-end=\"729\">The boy shrugged.<br data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"692\" \/>\u201cI don\u2019t think it was the detergent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"754\">\u201cOh? What was it then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"776\">\u201cThe spin cycle.\u201d\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f604.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude04\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A seven-year-old boy walked into a corner grocery store and picked up a box of laundry detergent.The grocer smiled and asked if he had a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7019\" title=\"Washing The Dog\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}