{"id":958,"date":"2007-10-02T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2014-01-15T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T05:53:53","slug":"cat-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Cat Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stray cats are the true kings of the world. Domesticated cats are only the kings of the house they live in; stray cats have the freedom to wander.<\/p>\n<p>And often, a cat comes along and attempts to seduce you with its tail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/strokecat1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>You stroke it.<\/p>\n<p>Down the neck, up its neck, onto its forehead, where its eyes squint in joy. Down its neck again, and it changes posture.<\/p>\n<p>Then, without any reason, it leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Did you not give a good massage?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/strokecat2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I saw it walk down the path, where it found another human, who called at it. &#8220;<i>Meow<\/i>&#8220;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>To a cat that meant, &#8220;<i>I have a free massage or free food waiting for you. Or both.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True enough, it got another massage. It didn&#8217;t stay so long with him, though.<\/p>\n<p>And as I waited for the STAR LRT to come, I thought, <b>how great it is to be a cat!<\/b> You just walk about and you get free massages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stray cats are the true kings of the world. Domesticated cats are only the kings of the house they live in; stray cats have the freedom to wander. And often, a cat comes along and attempts to seduce you with its tail. You stroke it. Down the neck, up its neck, onto its forehead, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}