{"id":840,"date":"2025-06-27T18:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/?p=840"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:53:29","slug":"i-took-the-train-to-clear-my-head-and-sat-across-from-a-dog-who-knew-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"I TOOK THE TRAIN TO CLEAR MY HEAD\u2014AND SAT ACROSS FROM A DOG WHO KNEW TOO MUCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"http:\/\/international11.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/photo_2025-06-27_18-30-21-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/international11.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/photo_2025-06-27_18-30-21-2-512x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I wasn\u2019t supposed to be on that train. After crying for hours outside my ex\u2019s apartment, I grabbed the first ticket I could find. I needed air. Distance. Something to remind me I was still alive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s when I saw him\u2014a golden retriever sitting upright like a passenger. His eyes met mine with surprising depth, like he\u00a0<em>knew<\/em>. Moments later, he gently placed his head on my knee. His owner, Sam, was shocked: \u201cBuddy doesn\u2019t usually do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I found myself telling Buddy everything\u2014my heartbreak, regret, and how I\u2019d lost myself in a toxic relationship. When the train arrived\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t supposed to be on that train. After crying for hours outside my ex\u2019s apartment, I grabbed the first ticket I could find. I needed air. Distance. Something to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}