{"id":119928,"date":"2018-10-15T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=119928"},"modified":"2018-10-08T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:19:13","slug":"dogs-as-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/10\/dogs-as-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs as Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If dogs were our teachers, we would learn:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No matter how often you are scolded, don&#8217;t buy into the guilt thing and pout; run right back and make friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63800\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vida-natural-cachoro-c\u00e3o-humano-child-crian\u00e7a-animal.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63800\" class=\"wp-image-63800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vida-natural-cachoro-c\u00e3o-humano-child-crian\u00e7a-animal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vida-natural-cachoro-c\u00e3o-humano-child-crian\u00e7a-animal.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vida-natural-cachoro-c\u00e3o-humano-child-crian\u00e7a-animal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foto: iStock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dietrich-Dieter-Fischer-e1510135945622.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-101253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dietrich-Dieter-Fischer-e1510135945622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" >Stories to Inspire You<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" > &#8211; TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If dogs were our teachers, we would learn: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}