{"id":1046,"date":"2012-07-12T05:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T09:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2015-10-02T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:45:19","slug":"cocker-spaniel-or-cocker-spaniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Cocker Spaniel or cocker spaniel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/iStock_000013981663XSmall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dictionary\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1047\" \/>To the best of my knowledge, cocker spaniel is not a proper name therefore it is not capitalized. If a dog breed includes a proper name then that part is capitalized (i.e. American cocker spaniel, Labrador retriever).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.quickanddirtytips.com\/capitalizing-dog-breeds.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Quick and Dirty Tips: Capitalizing Dog Breeds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the best of my knowledge, cocker spaniel is not a proper name therefore it is not capitalized. If a dog breed includes a proper name then that part is capitalized (i.e. American cocker spaniel, Labrador retriever). Quick and Dirty Tips: Capitalizing Dog Breeds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-grammar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}