{"id":258,"date":"2009-06-04T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/06\/love.html"},"modified":"2009-06-04T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:40:00","slug":"love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/06\/love.html","title":{"rendered":"Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interactions with my cat in the last eight hours:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>He emitted soft grunts every time I kicked him (sometimes hard) in the midst of my fitful sleep last night. Yet he didn&#8217;t leave. Loyalty? or Laziness?<\/li>\n<li>He added his assistance to the alarm&#8217;s otherwise ineffective efforts to get me out of bed this morning. Nuzzling my hand and purring into my ear he could have either have been concerned about my lethargy or concerned about his breakfast.<\/li>\n<li>When I stood up too quickly and had to spend some time kneeling on the floor while the blood returned to my head, he came over to stand guard, walking around and around me and occasionally taking breaks to sit and sagely measure my recovery. He could also have been encouraging me to get up and walk the final five feet to his food dish.<\/li>\n<li>After breakfast, while I sat on the couch and contemplated various unsolvable problems of life, he came over to tuck himself carefully into the space closest to me on the couch, rest his paws and chin on my leg, and purr. Maybe this time he really was looking out for me. Or maybe he was doing as any good pet trainer does: rewarding the good behavior I&#8217;d shown when I finally fed him.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interactions with my cat in the last eight hours: He emitted soft grunts every time I kicked him (sometimes hard) in the midst of my fitful sleep last night. Yet he didn&#8217;t leave. Loyalty? or Laziness? He added his assistance to the alarm&#8217;s otherwise ineffective efforts to get me out of bed this morning. Nuzzling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/06\/love.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}