{"id":499,"date":"2013-10-08T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/the-most-insulting-thing-that-someone-has-said-to-me-since-using-a-service-dog\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T22:03:29","slug":"the-most-insulting-thing-that-someone-has-said-to-me-since-using-a-service-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/the-most-insulting-thing-that-someone-has-said-to-me-since-using-a-service-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The most insulting thing that someone has said to me since using a service dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I should get put a vest on my dog and train them.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>This has been said to me about three times.  Once at a rest stop, twice by another teacher on another campus, and once today.  It usually makes me want to slap them because I know they don&#8217;t have the training chops.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve trained and handled the number one obedience beagle.  I&#8217;ve trained two dogs who went into service as police dogs and I have trained several police officers to train their dogs.\n<\/p>\n<p>And as my husband says, they get to have the chronic, life threatening illness too.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she makes mistakes.  She jumped on a caterer&#8217;s waiter tonight, which he was gracious about and she got corrected for.  Thankfully she weighs all of 15 pounds.  She also peeked under a dressing room \u2013 I usually get a handicapped one but they were busy today \u2013 all the handicapped parking spaces were actually taken.  She also missed the opportunity to earn a people treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I should get put a vest on my dog and train them.&#8221; This has been said to me about three times. Once at a rest stop, twice by another teacher on another campus, and once today. It usually makes me want to slap them because I know they don&#8217;t have the training chops. I&#8217;ve trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}