{"id":1487,"date":"2026-05-13T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:24:48","slug":"he-left-for-college-thinking-his-dog-would-still-be-waiting-but-came-home-to-a-collar-hanging-on-a-wooden-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"He Left for College Thinking His Dog Would Still Be Waiting\u2026 But Came Home to a Collar Hanging on a Wooden Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-229-1024x505.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-229-1024x505.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-229-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-229-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-229-1536x757.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-229.png 1894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He left for college with a best friend waiting at home.<br>He came back to find only a collar on a cross. The photo shows him years apart in the same yard. In the first, he\u2019s just a kid lying in the grass with the puppy he grew up with. In the second, he\u2019s a college-aged man lying beside the dog\u2019s homemade grave, with the collar still hanging from the wooden cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His family said the dog passed while he was away at school, and he never got the goodbye he thought he had more time for. When asked why the photo hit so hard, one person said it best:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe hardest part of loving a dog is they give you their whole life, but you only get to give them part of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He left for college with a best friend waiting at home.He came back to find only a collar on a cross. The photo shows him years apart&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewus.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}