{"id":913,"date":"2015-07-27T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:03:45","slug":"others-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/others-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"To See Inside Others&#8217; Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-914\" title=\"To See Inside Others\u2019 Hearts\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Edie the Dog looks unapproachable. Photographed by Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York.\" width=\"607\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace-624x760.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EdieFace.jpg 1314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><em>Don\u2019t mess with me.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I am not who you think I am. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I crawled all over the floor trying to get Edie The Dog to look at me. Later, when I examined the photos I\u2019d taken, I thought I recognized something in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p><em>You think I look mad and unapproachable. You stick your camera smack in my face and try to get me to smile. But I won\u2019t smile. Today, all I can think about is what I\u2019m missing.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t know my story. The story that might make you cry, or maybe cringe. If it makes you uncomfortable, consider how it makes me feel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How you feel, how I feel. I don\u2019t care. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then I found the shot that reminded me of my own dog, and all the love and emotional support she gives me. And I wondered if maybe we could better read what\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W12_knlv_xw\" target=\"_blank\">inside others\u2019 hearts<\/a> by first remembering what\u2019s in our own. Because we all struggle with sadness, pain, worries, and fears. And we all have known hope and joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-915\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photographs Edie The Dog looking up lovingly at the one who loves her.\" width=\"296\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie-768x896.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie-878x1024.jpg 878w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie-624x728.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dogloveEdie.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>How much kinder the world would be if we all stopped to see what others\u2019 stories entailed, and then treated each other with respect and compassion. Suddenly I understood something different from Edie The Dog\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is who I am now. Look at me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And if you show me you care, I will be your friend forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&rsquo;t mess with me. I am not who you think I am. I crawled all over the floor trying to get Edie The Dog to look at me. Later, when I examined the photos I&rsquo;d taken, I thought I recognized something in her eyes. You think I look mad and unapproachable. You stick your camera [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[573,572,568,574,571,570,569],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-emotional-support","tag-inside-others-hearts","tag-look-at-me","tag-loving-dogs","tag-photographing-dogs","tag-story-that-makes-you-cry","tag-this-is-who-i-am"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}