{"id":607,"date":"2013-08-26T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/08\/26\/happy-national-dog-day-avoid-animal-tragedies-with-does-the-dog-die\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:52:00","slug":"happy-national-dog-day-avoid-animal-tragedies-with-does-the-dog-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/08\/26\/happy-national-dog-day-avoid-animal-tragedies-with-does-the-dog-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Dog Day! Avoid animal tragedies with Does the Dog Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldogday.com\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZZpDjOniyn0\/UhvN1n7HAXI\/AAAAAAAAAwc\/0--Fw9Ulp4Q\/s320\/Lady+and+Tramp+spaghetti.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Evidently, August 26th is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldogday.com\/\">National Dog Day<\/a>, a holiday we can all agree with. The holiday&#8217;s goal is to raise awareness for local Humane Societies and the adoption process, which is a great thing, but it&#8217;s unclear how the average person should celebrate. Surely this is the right day to watch a few dog movies.<\/p>\n<p>But as anyone who watched <i>Marley &amp; Me<\/i> knows, many movies about pets end with the animals dying. However, some viewers are sensitive about seeing animals dying, or at least they aren&#8217;t looking forward to that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doesthedogdie.com\/\">Does the Dog Die?<\/a> is a new spoiler-filled website just for them. DtDD rates movies exclusively by whether the animals in the movies are killed or injured. <i>Old Yeller<\/i>, for instance, receives a thumbs down, while <i>Legally Blonde<\/i> gets the site&#8217;s seal of approval.<\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps not the best way to evaluate the quality of a movie, but it&#8217;s a nice quick reference for people who aren&#8217;t in the mood for heartbreak. Well done to whoever came up with the idea!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, August 26th is National Dog Day, a holiday we can all agree with. The holiday&#8217;s goal is to raise awareness for local Humane Societies and the adoption process, which is a great thing, but it&#8217;s unclear how the average person should celebrate. Surely this is the right day to watch a few dog movies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,355],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}