{"id":198,"date":"2008-10-11T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/10\/morning-monologue.html"},"modified":"2008-10-11T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T18:27:00","slug":"morning-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/10\/morning-monologue.html","title":{"rendered":"Morning Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, you’re waking up! …purr…<\/em> I’ve been waiting for you. I know you’ve been tired lately, so I thought I’d let you sleep in this morning.<\/p>\n

Did you notice how I didn’t jump on your stomach, or meow in your face, or knock over anything in the house? Did you? Did you? Wasn’t that nice of me? …purr…<\/em> I thought that this morning, because I love you, I’d just lie here on your belly and wait. And put my paw on your hand so I’d notice if you moved, even if I dozed off. And purr, but quietly, so it wouldn’t wake you up.<\/p>\n

…purr…<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn’t expect you to sleep all the way until nine o’clock, though.<\/p>\n

You know, I got a little worried as the morning wore on and no food appeared in my dish. I mean, you did sleep through dinner-time last night, so it’s not like I don’t have cause to be nervous. I know you did finally get up and feed me last night, but the wait would make anyone nervous. I’m not saying this to rush you or anything. Not at all. …purr…<\/em> I just want you to keep it in mind this morning as you decide how quickly to wake up.<\/p>\n

…purr<\/em> …<\/p>\n

Are you awake yet?<\/p>\n

…purr<\/em> …<\/p>\n

Here, let me just adjust the pressure of my paw on your hand.<\/p>\n

…purr…purr…purr…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, you’re waking up! …purr… I’ve been waiting for you. I know you’ve been tired lately, so I thought I’d let you sleep in this morning. Did you notice how I didn’t jump on your stomach, or meow in your face, or knock over anything in the house? Did you? Did you? Wasn’t that nice … Continue reading Morning Monologue<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}