{"id":184,"date":"2016-12-22T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=184"},"modified":"2016-12-22T22:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:17:35","slug":"the-heart-of-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/documentary\/the-heart-of-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of a Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOe2ipAFyFE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Laurie Anderson&#8217;s musings on poetry, politics, death and zen buddhism are woven together by reflections on her dog, Lola. I know how that sounds &#8211; self indulgent, rambling and oh so Californian. But it all kind of hangs together, with Anderson&#8217;s lilting, soothing voice and sketches floating over you until you think, &#8220;yeah, I could do yoga daily on the beach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a hardcore atheist so Buddhist teachings are not my thing, but I found myself writing down many of her phrases. And maybe crying a bit:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Animals are like people. They approach death and then back away. And you don&#8217;t have the right to take that process away from them&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;We had learned to love Lola as she had loved us, with a tenderness we didn&#8217;t know we had&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You get your story and you hold on to it, and every time you tell it you forget it more&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie Anderson&#8217;s musings on poetry, politics, death and zen buddhism are woven together by reflections on her dog, Lola. I know how that sounds &#8211; self indulgent, rambling and oh so Californian. But it all kind of hangs together, with Anderson&#8217;s lilting, soothing voice and sketches floating over you until&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/documentary\/the-heart-of-a-dog\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}