{"id":76,"date":"2006-12-27T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/12\/kidney-wars.html"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:48:06","slug":"kidney-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/12\/kidney-wars.html","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You <a href=\"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/12\/on-the-subbornness-of-cats.html\">may remember<\/a> that I&#8217;ve had difficulty traveling with my cat in the past.  He clams up and refuses to pee&#8230; which can&#8217;t be good.  But this time around, I followed my vet&#8217;s advice and launched a full scale attack in the first battle of the Kidney Wars.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at our destination, I fed him a gruel of two parts water and once part Amazingly Wonderful Wet Cat Food, or AWWCF (that&#8217;s the cat&#8217;s name for the food, and I thought he&#8217;d know better than I, since it smells pretty vile to me).  Then I let him sip some real chicken broth that my mom had made by &#8230; boiling a chicken.  Then I have him some more of the AWWCF, followed by a handful of his dry food &#8230; doused with water.<\/p>\n<p>The cat&#8217;s reluctant kidneys were no match for this onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, after arriving back at home base, the second offensive in the Kidney Wars is beginning, and I look forward to a voluminously successful outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that I&#8217;ve had difficulty traveling with my cat in the past. He clams up and refuses to pee&#8230; which can&#8217;t be good. But this time around, I followed my vet&#8217;s advice and launched a full scale attack in the first battle of the Kidney Wars. When we arrived at our destination, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/12\/kidney-wars.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kidney Wars<\/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-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}