{"id":2,"date":"2010-04-22T03:57:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T03:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-01-22T04:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T04:52:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Mehagian Vizslas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; position: relative; padding-right: 25px;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/?attachment_id=1558\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1558 size-medium\" title=\"Marge Mehagian with Sandy\" src=\"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marge_Sandy-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marge_Sandy-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marge_Sandy.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Champion Sandor Barat &#8211; Vizsla Club of America Hall of Fame<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3>&#8220;Sandy&#8221; was our first Vizsla. What a way to start!! He was supposed to be &#8220;just a companion dog&#8221; but he was so much more!!<\/h3>\n<p>We got &#8220;Sandy&#8221; in 1964 &#8211; long before most people had ever heard of Vizslas. He was my constant companion but was destined for much bigger and better things. At my husband&#8217;s suggestion we took him to some handling classes just for fun, but when people saw him they encouraged us to show him. That was the beginning of a great career. He was never defeated and his show career culminated in winning Best of Breed at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show &#8211; the first Western Vizsla ever to do so.<\/p>\n<p>He was bred to several bitches and when one of the litters was due, I decided to keep a Hunting Dog. Little did we know what was in store for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion Sandor Barat &#8211; Vizsla Club of America Hall of Fame &#8220;Sandy&#8221; was our first Vizsla. What a way to start!! He was supposed to be &#8220;just a companion dog&#8221; but he was so much more!! We got &#8220;Sandy&#8221; in 1964 &#8211; long before most people had ever heard of Vizslas. He was my constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehagianvizslas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}