{"id":1221,"date":"2013-04-17T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2013-04-17T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:01:09","slug":"topsy-turvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Topsy-turvy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago <a href=\"https:\/\/randomartprojects.blogspot.com\/\">Laura<\/a> commented on some of my Trygvi photos, and asked whether he really spent that much time upside-down. She didn&#8217;t remember Grendel as frequently inverted.<\/p>\n<p>Trygvi <i>really does<\/i> spend a remarkable amount of time with his feet up in the air, whether doing a headstand, or swimming the backstroke across the living room floor. (No really. Someday I&#8217;ll succeed in getting video.) He doesn&#8217;t lie down like a normal dog, settling one half then the other. Instead, he goes headfirst in a somersault. I haven&#8217;t managed to teach him how that command, because it&#8217;s not something he naturally does, and he gets terribly confused when I try to position him.<\/p>\n<p>Grendel, on the other hand, maintained more of a wolf-like dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, you can stop laughing now. At least he was right-side-up most of the time. I think this is the only photo ever taken of Grendel inverted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/img005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/img005-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Grendel puppy\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/img005-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/img005-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/img005.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is one of the few pictures of Trygvi looking distinguished that have ever been taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00527.jpg\" alt=\"Trygvi outside\" width=\"283\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00527.jpg 283w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00527-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect there to be many more of those: he&#8217;s not big on standing still. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago Laura commented on some of my Trygvi photos, and asked whether he really spent that much time upside-down. She didn&#8217;t remember Grendel as frequently inverted. Trygvi really does spend a remarkable amount of time with his feet up in the air, whether doing a headstand, or swimming the backstroke across the living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}