{"id":9361,"date":"2022-05-16T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T19:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=9361"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T14:38:02","slug":"meet-scout-the-nc-health-plans-office-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2022\/05\/meet-scout-the-nc-health-plans-office-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"MEET SCOUT, THE NC HEALTH PLANS OFFICE DOG!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1254\" height=\"1672\" data-id=\"9369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scout-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scout-rotated.jpeg 1254w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scout-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scout-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scout-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1254px) 100vw, 1254px\" \><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scout is a year and a half old chocolate Lab who belongs to our agency owner, Kennon Wainwright.  Scout loves to hang out in the office, visit each employee for belly rubs and treats and takes long naps.  Below are some of his favorite things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">Favorite Toy &#8211; Tennis ball<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">Favorite Food &#8211; Iams dog food and El&#8217;s Shrimp Burgers in Morehead City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">Best Buddies &#8211; His two human sisters, Harper and Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">Favorite Health Insurance Agency &#8211; NC Health Plans\/Jerry Ballard &amp; Associates, of course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">Favorite Pastime &#8211; Riding on the boat with his family on the Crystal Coast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duke Research has an article <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/researchblog.duke.edu\/tag\/dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> that shows just how healthy it is to own a pet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scout is a year and a half old chocolate Lab who belongs to our agency owner, Kennon Wainwright. Scout loves to hang out in the office, visit each employee for belly rubs and treats and takes long naps. Below are some of his favorite things: Favorite Toy &#8211; Tennis ball Favorite Food &#8211; Iams dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[525,1026,23,419,136,1045,1008,16,38],"class_list":["post-9361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-apply-for-medicare-in-north-carolina","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-north-carolina","tag-blue-cross-nc-medicare-plans","tag-health-insurance-marketplace","tag-medicare-supplement","tag-nc-health-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9361"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}