{"id":93,"date":"2005-07-20T01:17:07","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-12-23T20:49:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T04:49:45","slug":"cats-heaven-and-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/cats-heaven-and-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven and Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/abandoned_kitten_1.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Abandoned kitten\" \/>At first we noticed there were two kittens living under our neighbor&#8217;s boarded yard. But for the past few days, one of them never showed up. And we never saw the mother with the one remaining kitten anymore. So I decided to give the poor thing some treats despite my warning to Grace not to give any of the stray cats any in fear of them bringing dead squirrels as a token of their appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s part of being human. It&#8217;s impossible to witness a kitten&#8217;s health deteriorate as we walk by her underground hideout on a daily basis. We decided we&#8217;d try to trap her the next time we see her and send her to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hssv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">humane society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up giving her a small handful of cat food. For a kitten her size (about a month old), she sure could eat. She finished the whole damn pile!<\/p>\n<p>And then we came home to this sight&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/lazy_cats_01.JPG\" width=\"173\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Lazy cat\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/lazy_cats_02.JPG\" width=\"173\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Lazy cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, nature can&#8217;t be crueler. What a difference a home makes. One of my cats also has taken great interest in computers. It <strong>would<\/strong> be nice if she can get a job. What a dorky cat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mac_cat_01.JPG\" width=\"173\" height=\"130\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Mac cat\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first we noticed there were two kittens living under our neighbor&#8217;s boarded yard. But for the past few days, one of them never showed up. And we never saw the mother with the one remaining kitten anymore. So I decided to give the poor thing some treats despite my warning to Grace not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/cats-heaven-and-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heaven and Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-day-to-day-life","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-1v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}