{"id":10457,"date":"2022-03-23T05:55:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2022-03-20T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T22:16:40","slug":"the-health-and-mood-boosting-benefits-of-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/the-health-and-mood-boosting-benefits-of-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Health and Mood-Boosting Benefits of Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that pet owners have lower incidents of depression, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.\u00a0 Caring for a pet can bring pleasure and help boost your morale, optimism, and sense of self-worth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/articles\/mental-health\/mood-boosting-power-of-dogs.htm\">The Health and Mood-Boosting Benefits of Pets &#8211; HelpGuide.org<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Most pet owners are clear about the immediate joys that come with sharing their lives with companion animals. However, many of us remain unaware of the physical and mental health benefits that can also accompany the pleasure of snuggling up to a furry friend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that pet owners have lower incidents of depression, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.\u00a0 Caring for a pet can bring pleasure and help boost your morale, optimism, and sense of self-worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dog-licks-man-768.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Health and Mood-Boosting Benefits of Pets","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[369,5,581,589,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-mentalhealth","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mood_enhancers","11":"tag-pet_ownership","12":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10461,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/10461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}