{"id":8655,"date":"2011-10-13T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2011-10-13T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:00:07","slug":"pbs-decoding-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/pbs-decoding-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS: <em>Dogs Decoded<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every dog owner thinks he knows how his or her canine companion thinks. I doubt that many dog owners already know everything covered in this single one-hour program on PBS&#8217;s <em>Nova<\/em>\u00a0series, (re-)broadcast last night. Here&#8217;s a brief intro:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"328\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"width=600&amp;height=328&amp;video=1634377233&amp;player=viral&amp;chapter=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/video\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 600px;\">Watch <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/1634377233\" target=\"_blank\">Dogs Decoded<\/a> on PBS. See more from <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/nova\" target=\"_blank\">NOVA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sample tidbit: genetically, via mitochondrial DNA (passed down, unchanged, in the maternal bloodline), dogs <em>are<\/em>\u00a0gray wolves. Not similar to gray wolves. <em>Identical<\/em>\u00a0to them. MicroPooches, Irish wolfhounds, chihuahuas, mutts, pit bulls, Labradors, collies, shar-peis, Afghan hounds, setters, Mexican hairless,\u00a0basset\u00a0hounds, German shepherds, poodles&#8230; <em>gray wolves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For now, if it&#8217;s not being rebroadcast any time soon on your local PBS station, you can watch the whole thing online, in eight- or ten-minute chunks, by following the link highlighted above, just below the embedded video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every dog owner thinks he knows how his or her canine companion thinks. I doubt that many dog owners already know everything covered in this single one-hour program on PBS&#8217;s Nova\u00a0series, (re-)broadcast last night. Here&#8217;s a brief intro: Watch Dogs Decoded on PBS. See more from NOVA. Sample tidbit: genetically, via mitochondrial DNA (passed down, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,405,196],"tags":[442,2625,2626],"class_list":{"0":"post-8655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-science-medicine","7":"category-nature","8":"category-television","9":"tag-dogs","10":"tag-pbs","11":"tag-nova","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-2fB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}