{"id":20054,"date":"2018-08-29T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2018-08-29T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:12:47","slug":"anticipation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=20054","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation………"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’re never too old to be a child again! \u00a0This is Chester, my new American Golden Retriever puppy, sorta, kinda! \u00a0Actually, Chester hasn’t been conceived yet, and I hope it’s happening soon! \u00a0I have two breeders that are expecting puppies by mid to late November and I’m going to bring an 8 week old male puppy home with me then from one of those litters, then Chester will be a reality. \u00a0I’ve wanted a Golden for years! \u00a0My son Wesley had two and I loved both of them dearly and of course the legendary Roscoe, Jack Graham’s buddy for years, (we lost him a few weeks ago to hip displacia)! \u00a0Oh how I loved Roscoe, and I truly believe he loved me too, but then Golden’s love everybody so I probably should not be so confident about that!<\/p>\n

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Anticiapation is a great thing! \u00a0I have been getting ready, I have a puppy bed, crate, feeding bowls, chew toys, pull toys, collars and leashes. \u00a0Dog shampoo, flea collars, nail clippers, stuffed toys, doggy tennis balls, etc. etc! \u00a0I’ve watched a bunch of of dog training videos and cute Golden Retriever puppy, youtube videos. \u00a0It is safe to say that I’m excited.<\/p>\n

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Chester, why Chester? \u00a0A number of years ago I saw a film that had become one of my favorites, The Kid, a Disney film starring Bruce Willis. It was a comedic and serious role for him and, I think, one of his best roles! A Golden Retriever named Chester was a big part of that film and that added to my desire to have one as my friend.<\/p>\n

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Why not before now? \u00a0Well, Sherelene is working full time as a nurse practioner, and as you guys know I have \u00a0traveled a lot most of my career. Sherelene’s deal with me was that when I started to really slow down, we would be ready for a dog. \u00a0Next year I’m only doing 7 events with Jack and I have all this winter off, until March, so there is time to give Chester all the time and attention a puppy needs to adjust and get trained. \u00a0So this is the right time! \u00a0Can’t wait!<\/p>\n

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I will blog photos and videos when the blessed event happens!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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    You’re never too old to be a child again! \u00a0This is Chester, my new American Golden Retriever puppy, sorta, kinda! \u00a0Actually, Chester hasn’t been conceived yet, and I hope it’s happening soon! \u00a0I have two breeders that are expecting puppies by mid to late November and I’m going to bring an 8 week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20057,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions\/20057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}