{"id":1743,"date":"2026-04-29T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:17:47","slug":"best-in-show-wednesday-april-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/29\/best-in-show-wednesday-april-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Best in Show. Tick celebrates his 8th birthday."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tick2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tick2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tick2-512x360.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We moved NewScreen to a Wednesday this week, as Tick&#8217;s birthday fell on the 29th. Of course he was excited to see all those dogs on screen, but most excited by his present from Conchi and Alvaro, some kind of a birdy-ducky toy, with a particularly appealing squeak. Sadly, the toy did not survive the surgical precision of a Jack Russell Terrier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Best in Show<\/em> was great to see one more time, and we even had some people watching it for the first time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ducky.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1761\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Surgery completed. 12 minutes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0218839\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We moved NewScreen to a Wednesday this week, as Tick&#8217;s birthday fell on the 29th. Of course he was excited to see all those dogs on screen, but most excited by his present from Conchi and Alvaro, some kind of a birdy-ducky toy, with a particularly appealing squeak. Sadly, the toy did not survive the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/29\/best-in-show-wednesday-april-29th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best in Show. Tick celebrates his 8th birthday.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doggy-style","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}