{"id":606,"date":"2014-01-26T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/?p=606"},"modified":"2014-01-26T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:12:21","slug":"the-guard-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2014\/01\/the-guard-cat.html","title":{"rendered":"The Guard Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, Pippin fancies himself a Guard Cat. Sure, he spends a lot of time sleeping, er, Lulling Them Into a False Sense of Security, but when he feels you&#8217;ve overstepped your bounds he will take decisive action. Impotent, claw-less action, but decisive.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m up and about and generally feeling pretty good, he greets people who enter the house with interest and high hopes for belly rubs. When I&#8217;m feeling crummy, though, watch out. He may just hiss and swat at you, attempt to bar your entry from the house, and even refuse treats in service of his mission to rain displeasure on your head and convince you to beat a hasty retreat from whence you came.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pippin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-608\" alt=\"Pippin\" src=\"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pippin-1024x764.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pippin-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pippin-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, Pippin fancies himself a Guard Cat. Sure, he spends a lot of time sleeping, er, Lulling Them Into a False Sense of Security, but when he feels you&#8217;ve overstepped your bounds he will take decisive action. Impotent, claw-less action, but decisive. When I&#8217;m up and about and generally feeling pretty good, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2014\/01\/the-guard-cat.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Guard Cat<\/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-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}