{"id":14081,"date":"2024-03-15T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:39:55","slug":"warm-days-put-a-bark-in-the-dog-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/warm-days-put-a-bark-in-the-dog-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm days put a bark in the dog park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unseasonably warm temperatures and loads of sunshine Tuesday and Wednesday brought out the pooches and their people to Decatur&#8217;s new dog park, Paws &amp; Play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/973346785F044A6EBE939B17959AF42F.jpg?resize=542%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/973346785F044A6EBE939B17959AF42F.jpg?w=542&amp;ssl=1 542w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/973346785F044A6EBE939B17959AF42F.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Located at the former site of the Evergreen Assisted Living facility \u2013 roughly across Mercer Ave. from Adams Memorial Hospital \u2013 the park has two separate fenced-in sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To use the facility, owners must register their dogs and pay an annual fee of $30 per household at Riverside Center, 231 E. Monroe St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proof that the dog has been vaccinated is required and there is a limit of three dogs per family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/46F11E1DD75348B6BDCDC874C974EB2F.jpg?resize=321%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/46F11E1DD75348B6BDCDC874C974EB2F.jpg?w=321&amp;ssl=1 321w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/46F11E1DD75348B6BDCDC874C974EB2F.jpg?resize=251%2C300&amp;ssl=1 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rules for the dog park are posted at the site. \u201cAnd there are bags there so please use them,\u201d the mayor asked the public in announcing the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Unseasonably warm temperatures and loads of sunshine Tuesday and Wednesday brought out the pooches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-14081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}