{"id":12263,"date":"2019-12-19T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/new-zealand-stick-library-for-dogs"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:55:26","slug":"something-to-chew-on-new-zealand-man-sets-up-stick-library-for-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12263","title":{"rendered":"Something to chew on: New Zealand man sets up &#8216;stick library&#8217; for dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Taylor came up with the idea because of a lack of \u2018good\u2019 sticks at the local park<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand man has created a \u201cstick library\u201d for his local dog park as a way to recycle branches from tree pruning.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Taylor, of north Canterbury in the South Island, cut a dozen tree branches down to \u201cstick\u201d size for the community\u2019s four-legged friends, and smoothed away the rough edges using tools he had around the house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/new-zealand-stick-library-for-dogs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Taylor came up with the idea because of a lack of \u2018good\u2019 sticks at the local parkA New Zealand man has created a \u201cstick library\u201d for his local dog park as a way to recycle branches from tree pruning.Andrew Taylor, of north Canterbury in the Sout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,868,78,56,284,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-dogs","category-life-and-style","category-new-zealand","category-pets","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}