{"id":1099,"date":"2011-01-10T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandralee.com.au\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2013-05-01T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T02:28:24","slug":"wonder-dog-sarbi-finally-free-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/2011\/01\/wonder-dog-sarbi-finally-free-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Dog Sarbi Finally Free at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She spent 14 months missing in action and seven more in quarantine but finally Australia&#8217;s most beloved pooch has made her way home.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the highly trained explosive detection dog Sarbi was released to her original trainer Sergeant D*, from whom she was separated when they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan in 2008.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1103\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/EDD-Sarbi-and-Sgt-D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1103\" title=\"EDD Sarbi and Sgt D\" src=\"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/EDD-Sarbi-and-Sgt-D-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Woof, you Sgt D, I really love you\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/EDD-Sarbi-and-Sgt-D-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/EDD-Sarbi-and-Sgt-D-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woof, you Sgt D, I really love you<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, the bomb dog made her first &#8220;appearance&#8221; and stole the show, proving there was nothing (well, perhaps a slight scent \u00a0distraction) that could deter her from her duties. Sarbi leaped, bounded, climbed and tunnelled through, up and over an obstacle course to show off for the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>But, she only had eyes for her trainer and handler, Sergeant D, who, like Sarbi, was injured in the ambush.<\/p>\n<p>Sarbi has spent the past seven months waiting to prove her medical clearance. She passed with flying colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She spent 14 months missing in action and seven more in quarantine but finally Australia&#8217;s most beloved pooch has made her way home. On Saturday, the highly trained explosive detection dog Sarbi was released to her original trainer Sergeant D*, from whom she was separated when they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,4,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-military","category-politics","category-pop-culture","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}