{"id":9,"date":"2008-06-09T15:29:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-06-11T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T16:04:16","slug":"tornado-lifts-dog-drops-him-softly-a-block-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Lifts Dog, Drops Him Softly A Block Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dog Survives Toto Impression During Tornado<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/local\/tornado.lifts.dog.2.743773.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wbbm0609tornadodog.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRICHTON PARK, Ill. (CBS) \u00e2\u20ac\u2022 Chase certainly doesn&#8217;t look like Toto from &#8220;The Wizard of Oz.&#8221; He&#8217;s a big rottweiler, not a little cairn terrier. But he certainly does a wonderful impression.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, when a tornado swept through Richton Park, Chase was hanging out the backyard of Sandra Holmes&#8217; house. That is, until the tornado picked him up and took him on the ride of his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People started coming up and saying &#8216;we saw your dog in flight,'&#8221; said Holmes, Chase&#8217;s owner.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor Tatyiana Smith saw it. &#8220;The dog was in the air, he was going around like he was pulled out of the ground,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Chase didn&#8217;t get whisked away to the magical land of Oz. Instead, residents found him more than a block away in the woods, dazed and shocked, but alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a miracle,&#8221; Holmes said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a blessing from God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ref]=[<a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/local\/tornado.lifts.dog.2.743773.html\">http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/local\/tornado.lifts.dog.2.743773.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog Survives Toto Impression During Tornado RICHTON PARK, Ill. (CBS) \u00e2\u20ac\u2022 Chase certainly doesn&#8217;t look like Toto from &#8220;The Wizard of Oz.&#8221; He&#8217;s a big rottweiler, not a little cairn terrier. But he certainly does a wonderful impression. On Saturday, when a tornado swept through Richton Park, Chase was hanging out the backyard of Sandra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}