{"id":144,"date":"2009-01-22T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/FinneySettlingIn.aspx"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:30:28","slug":"finney-settling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/finney-settling-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Finney settling in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a while since we had a dog and this past summer Paula and I started researching greyhounds. It took us a while to be ready to get a new dog, but this past weekend Paula and I adopted an ex racer from from a local greyhound rescue organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/457930277_E6De8-S.jpg\" alt=\"Resting greyhound\" class=\"wp-image-3443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/457930277_E6De8-S.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/457930277_E6De8-S-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ex-racers are very used to competing with other dogs for human attention, so they tend to be very attentive. They do, however, need some time to get used to being a member of a family and living in a new environment. So right now, he just sleeps most of the time.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our new family member has a number of Irish ancestors, and since we had been in Ireland for a while we decided on an Irish name for him. Finian (pronounced fin-yan) is Irish for &#8220;white haired&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we had a dog and this past summer Paula and I started researching greyhounds. It took us a while to be ready to get a new dog, but this past weekend Paula and I adopted an ex racer from from a local greyhound rescue organization. Ex-racers are very used to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idledogs","tag-idledogs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/457930277_E6De8-S.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}