{"id":500,"date":"2013-09-20T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/dad-misconceptions\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T13:26:29","slug":"dad-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/dad-misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"DAD Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">When I first started entertaining the notion of a Diabetes Alert Dog, I really didn&#8217;t know anything.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">First, I thought the dog would only alert for emergencies. Man was that so wrong.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">Second, I thought we needed an elaborate alert. Wrong again.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">Third, I thought it was going to take a lot of training. She&#8217;s done most of the work.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">Dulce alerts when I just need to eat a bit early, or need a snack. Great solution \u2013 eliminates the wild grabbing of carbs, and I can be more thoughtful about what I was eating. Instead of a massive amount of carbs, just need a couple of lifesavers, or better yet, schedule an earlier lunch.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">I thought we needed an elaborate alert, but really just need her to put her paws on my knee.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">And guess who figured all this out.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">Yeah, the dog.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">Yes, it&#8217;s taken a lot of training.  Especially the day to day behavior stuff.  But a lot of the alert stuff is stuff Dulce does naturally and I&#8217;m not sure that is true with most DADs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started entertaining the notion of a Diabetes Alert Dog, I really didn&#8217;t know anything. First, I thought the dog would only alert for emergencies. Man was that so wrong. Second, I thought we needed an elaborate alert. Wrong again. Third, I thought it was going to take a lot of training. She&#8217;s [&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-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}