{"id":3359,"date":"2015-01-03T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2015-01-03T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T20:16:46","slug":"2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea where this year will take us. I know what I want, and that&#8217;s to <em>compete<\/em> again. We&#8217;ve been in training mode for two years, in agility and flyball, focusing on criteria and improving performance in different environments. I would like to push that now, put the training to the test and win some stuff.<a title=\"Fast as you can by kayanem, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kayanem\/15990138158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7494\/15990138158_f6f697b051.jpg\" alt=\"Fast as you can\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>In a related sense, I want to get out of our comfort zone this year. I&#8217;ve already started, since Dylan is entered in our first Obedience competition at the end of the month. Actual obedience! I don&#8217;t find obedience very exciting but that&#8217;s part of the challenge. It matters more that Dylan enjoys it. Obedience has very clear criteria, and he likes that. I&#8217;ve also missed working with him, so it&#8217;s nice for us to find something we can do together.<a title=\"Distinguished by kayanem, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kayanem\/16176797692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7510\/16176797692_1b5c1ee37f.jpg\" alt=\"Distinguished\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a>I want to set goals, because I feel like I need goals to push <em>me<\/em> on. But I wrote out some goals and then decided they were too unattainable. Impossible goals are no good for me. I need goals that are reachable. It&#8217;s a matter of when, rather than maybe.<\/p>\n<p>So. Goals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rio and Daisy to get their 200pt Flyball Dog awards<\/li>\n<li>Rio to win out of Grade 3<\/li>\n<li>Dylan to get his P-Beg Ex award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Daisy Edit by kayanem, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kayanem\/16177553225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7496\/16177553225_6a359d44d4.jpg\" alt=\"Daisy Edit\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea where this year will take us. I know what I want, and that&#8217;s to compete again. We&#8217;ve been in training mode for two years, in agility and flyball, focusing on criteria and improving performance in different environments. I would like to push that now, put the training to the test and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-daisy","category-dylan","category-rio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5mHz0-2015","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}