{"id":729,"date":"2013-04-17T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=729"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:22:42","slug":"nothing-beats-two-great-pairs-of-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/nothing-beats-two-great-pairs-of-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Beats Two Great Pairs of Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Beijing Olympics were a long time ago. With no opening ceremonies to practice for, Chinese citizens have instead found something new to do: take photographs of their dogs wearing pantyhose.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201c<em>gou gou chuan siwa<\/em>\u201d in Chinese, the movement can be traced back to this photo, posted to the social network Weibo early in April:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Dogs in pantyhose and high heels\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pantyhosedogs1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Numerous others have followed, some with fancy footwear:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Dog wearing pantyhose and zebra-striped boots\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pantyhosedogs2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some with just the hose:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Dog standing and wearing pantyhose\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pantyhosedogs3.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And some dogs are apparently divas who demand additional accessories:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Dog wearing pantyhose and a tiara\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pantyhosedogs4.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"371\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, this may not seem much different from putting a sweater or a hat on a dog, but because of how dogs recognize each other, it\u2019s actually the equivalent of forcing a ski mask onto a human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beijing Olympics were a long time ago. With no opening ceremonies to practice for, Chinese citizens have instead found something new to do: take photographs of their dogs wearing pantyhose. Known as \u201cgou gou chuan siwa\u201d in Chinese, the movement can be traced back to this photo, posted to the social network Weibo early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[106,74,41,107],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-chinese","tag-dogs","tag-meme","tag-weibo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}