{"id":34358,"date":"2015-07-15T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34358"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:39:02","slug":"pan-am-athletes-go-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/07\/pan-am-athletes-go-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan Am athletes go to the dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34359\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pan-am-puppies.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34359\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34359\" title=\"pan-am-puppies\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pan-am-puppies-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"Athletes from Mexico take a time out with St. John Ambulance therapy dogs on Monday in Jubilee Court.\" width=\"504\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Athletes from Mexico take a time out with St. John Ambulance therapy dogs on Monday in Jubilee Court.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They have a way with stressed out students during exams.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s no reason why the friendly paw of a pooch shouldn&#8217;t be extended to homesick Pan Am athletes, or those needing to calm their nerves before competition.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly why the St. John Ambulance therapy dogs paid a visit to Brock Saturday and Monday, where athletes from the Americas nuzzled and took selfies with retrievers, collies and mountain dogs.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, 109 athletes spent time with the therapy dogs in Jubilee Court. On Monday, there were 121, some of whom brought their medals with them as they mugged with the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>About 500 athletes are staying on campus during the games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thought was (to bring the dogs in) for some of the athletes being stressed out and being away from home, the young ones,&#8221; said Gary Jack, St. John therapy dog program supervisor. &#8220;From the early feedback, it&#8217;s been outstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34360\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pan-am-puppies-6.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34360\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34360\" title=\"pan-am-puppies-6\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pan-am-puppies-6-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"An athlete from Mexico snaps a selfie with a therapy dog Monday in Jubilee Court.\" width=\"504\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An athlete from Mexico snaps a selfie with a therapy dog Monday in Jubilee Court.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have a way with stressed out students during exams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1218,3204,3205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34361,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions\/34361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}