{"id":7326,"date":"2018-07-21T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/?p=7326"},"modified":"2018-07-21T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T06:28:56","slug":"free-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/free-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"free dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Free dog <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Why do I have a dog? I don\u2019t know. The only thing I do know is that I don\u2019t feel so alone anymore. Since I have got my dog, I have the feeling that this puppy leads me from self-isolation \u201cback into the world\u201d. When he wonders about a flower or how to catch a butterfly I feel as if I am discovering the world for a second time. I lost a child, and even though no being can be replaced by another being I am grateful that I have allowed this dog to come into my life. It also gives me a new focus: Where the \u201cold Renate\u201d was afraid of crowds and depressed by seeing \u201chappy families\u201d spending time in nature the \u201cnew dog mother\u201d is looking for her \u201coffspring\u201d: That he doesn\u2019t chew up something dangerous, that he is not afraid of bikes, lawn-mowers or joggers. The more time I spend with him, the more we bond. And the more I feel this \u201canchor\u201d in my small world the less I am frustrated if friends cease to be friends. As puppies don\u2019t have a sense of \u201ctime\u201d I am about to stay in the present which is the only time where I can find healing. I am still sad about the turmoils of the past and worried that worse is to come in the future. But I spend less time in those two \u201cunreachable\u201d times. I don\u2019t say that a dog is the solution for everyone suffering from trauma and depression. I only say that it has been my solution for thinking less destructive thoughts and turning all the suppressed anger of my life against myself. My dog \u201cforces\u201d me to get up at 6 o\u2019clock to go for a walk, take a swim in the river. The first half an hour I am still grumpy thinking of my warm bed. When I have done my swimming and see my dog with joy running around the \u201cbeach\u201d I feel blessed with life. My day can start now and I know that 6 hours later I will be \u201cout with my dog\u201d again. There is still time for a quiet hour at home, but it is more fruitful than the long hours I spent in bed \u201chiding from the facts of the world\u201d for years. I can feel more energy in my veins and it is as if the loyal affection of this dog helps healing old wounds and keeps me from comparing myself to others. These are the thoughts I wanted to share with you, dear reader.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Renate Weber<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free dog Why do I have a dog? I don\u2019t know. The only thing I do know is that I don\u2019t feel so alone anymore. Since I have got my dog, I have the feeling that this puppy leads me from self-isolation \u201cback into the world\u201d. When he wonders about a flower or how to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}