{"id":38,"date":"1999-07-24T12:00:53","date_gmt":"1999-07-24T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/07\/24\/letter-to-the-editor\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T21:11:58","slug":"letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/07\/24\/letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This was written by me and published in the Times on July 24, 1999.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Editor, Seattle Times:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nI am writing in enthusiastic support of Seattle&#8217;s animal-control police officers. I&#8217;m glad to know there are people out there doing their best to enforce leash laws.<\/p>\n<p>The dog owners quoted in the July 18th article seem to think their dogs should be an exception to the rule, that their dogs are so angelic a leash is unnecessary. In some cases, this may be true, but the law does not distinguish good dogs from bad dogs. Until there is a system in place to test dog behavior and issue some sort of off-leash license to the truly well-behaved, all dogs should remain on leashes. How am I supposed to know if the loud, frightening dog bounding toward me will heed its owner&#8217;s call? I don&#8217;t want my visit to the park to be disrupted (as it often is) by having to be on constant lookout for unrestrained dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the Seattle area has several large off-leash areas where dogs can be exercised freely. Please, dog owners, remember that many park users don&#8217;t like dogs, even your sweet little Fido. Use the off-leash areas, and leave the rest of us in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written by me and published in the Times on July 24, 1999. Editor, Seattle Times: I am writing in enthusiastic support of Seattle&#8217;s animal-control police officers. I&#8217;m glad to know there are people out there doing their best to enforce leash laws. The dog owners quoted in the July 18th article seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}