{"id":2102,"date":"2007-02-12T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/and_what_a_hoot_it_will_be_when_keanu_reeves_shows_up_and_sees_welcome_dogstar_on_the_marquee.html"},"modified":"2007-02-12T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:33:56","slug":"and_what_a_hoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/and_what_a_hoot.html","title":{"rendered":"And What A Hoot It Will Be When Keanu Reeves Shows Up And Sees &#8220;Welcome Dogstar&#8221; On The Marquee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to play a fun trick on someone &#8212; lecherous clients, people with annoying allergies, your loser alcoholic stepdad &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/newyork\/ny-nypooc125091119feb12,0,5202741.story?coll=ny-nynews-print\">book a hotel room for someone at the Hotel Pennsylvania this week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Hotel Pennsylvania went to the dogs yesterday, as canine competitors arrived with their owners and handlers for the Westminster Kennel Club&#8217;s 131st Annual Dog Show, which starts today at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,500 dogs will compete at the two-day pooch pageant, which will showcase 156 breeds of tail-waggers who compete for best in breed as well for the coveted best in show prize. The lobby of the hotel, just across from the Garden, was like a mini-runway yesterday as humans and best friends checked into their rooms and used the time to acclimate the dogs to the noise, congestion and other pooches.<\/p>\n<p>Dog handler Nancy Huether, of Cape Cod, Mass., said the whole process was an adventure, particularly staying with three bullmastiffs &#8212; including a massive 4-year-old named Vinnie &#8212; as well as a Saint Bernard in three hotel rooms.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to play a fun trick on someone &#8212; lecherous clients, people with annoying allergies, your loser alcoholic stepdad &#8212; book a hotel room for someone at the Hotel Pennsylvania this week: The Hotel Pennsylvania went to the dogs yesterday, as canine competitors arrived with their owners and handlers for the Westminster Kennel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sniff_snort_and_chortle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}