{"id":17,"date":"2016-03-19T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:23:49","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/2016\/03\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #3b4250;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/King-Merlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/King-Merlin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"King Merlin\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/King-Merlin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/King-Merlin.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3b4250;\">Merlin&#8217;s Hope Rescue was founded to honour a blind chow named Merlin, who showed the world that blind dogs rule! Merlin was a true ambassador of the breed and was loved by all who met him. \u00a0 Blind dogs can perform just as well as sighted dogs, in fact almost 90% of the time,\u00a0most people never notice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3b4250;\">We are operated by benevolent volunteers across several provinces. We are all gainfully employed and donate our time and effort to the Rescue Effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3b4250;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1444234280_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39\" src=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1444234280_n-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"_1444234280_n\" width=\"150\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1444234280_n-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1444234280_n.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012peanut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012peanut-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"2012peanut\" width=\"124\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012peanut-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012peanut.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/26618123large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/26618123large-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"26618123large\" width=\"159\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/26618123large-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/26618123large.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin&#8217;s Hope Rescue was founded to honour a blind chow named Merlin, who showed the world that blind dogs rule! Merlin was a true ambassador of the breed and was loved by all who met him. \u00a0 Blind dogs can perform just as well as sighted dogs, in fact almost 90% of the time,\u00a0most people never notice. We are operated by benevolent volunteers across several provinces. We are all gainfully employed and donate our time and effort to the Rescue Effort. \u00a0\u00a0<\/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-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merlinshope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}