{"id":3286,"date":"2017-12-17T08:51:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/147.182.248.240\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2018-12-05T08:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:47:33","slug":"borrow-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Borrow the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found Paul Gordon.
\nFrom time to time I’d Google him. He is such an amazing cartoonist I was sure I’d track him down somewhere, at some point…
\nHis is the dog I’m borrowinghttps:\/\/147.182.248.240\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/borrow-the-dog.mp3 in “Borrow the Dog”.
\nHere we were, twentynothings. I was living on snickers bars I bought with change found between the cushions of the sofa and he was taking care of a dog. To have your own dog that you had to feed and care for… well, to me, that made you a man. It started me thinking about a man and his dog.
\nAnd while the original version is scribbled somewhere in one of those notebooks in that box under that other box in the closet, the version that survived speaks to those basic needs in a changing world, some simple notions: Friendship. Sustenance. Protection…<\/p>\n

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Borrow the Dog<\/span><\/p>\n

Hey, can I borrow the dog
\nshe needs attention and
\nI need some company
\nHey, can I borrow the dog
\nthere’s a bird that I’d like to try
\nstill flying in the sky
\nmy aim has gotten cold.<\/p>\n

I shoot to kill
\nright between the eyes
\nshe smells the blood
\nbrings our supper home<\/p>\n

Dog gets the bones
\nKing finds his throne
\nman takes a life
\nto save his own<\/p>\n

Hey, can I borrow the dog
\nthese streets have gotten hard
\nshe’ll help keep harm away
\nHey, can I borrow your gun
\nonce I thought peace and love
\nnow I don’t trust no one
\nnothings before
\nin this changing millenium<\/p>\n

I shoot to kill
\nright between the eyes
\nshe smells the blood
\nbrings our supper home<\/p>\n

Dog gets the bones
\nKing finds his throne
\nman takes a life
\nto save his own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found Paul Gordon. From time to time I’d Google him. He is such an amazing cartoonist I was sure I’d track him down somewhere, at some point… His is the dog I’m borrowinghttps:\/\/147.182.248.240\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/borrow-the-dog.mp3 in “Borrow the Dog”. Here we were, twentynothings. I was living on snickers bars I bought with change found between the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsiegel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}