{"id":1671,"date":"2006-09-30T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/the-boy-and-his-cat\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T19:09:00","slug":"the-boy-and-his-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/the-boy-and-his-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy and His Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1182.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1182.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Some have called him kingly, aloof, dog-like, and loyal only to those who feed him.  There may be some grains of truth in those labels, but the plain truth is: Scout is a lap cat.  We thought he was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">our <\/span>lap cat, our nightly leg-warmer.  Not anymore.  Each afternoon and evening, he sits on the bottom of Will&#8217;s bed, waiting.  He&#8217;ll stay there patiently, until Will is too asleep to notice his heavy paws climbing across him (if he tries this while Will is awake, he&#8217;ll get pushed back to the bottom of the bed.)  Once settled, he&#8217;ll stay until Will wakes up.  It continues even while Will is in school. Scout curls into the bedcovers, as if keeping Will&#8217;s spot warm.<\/p>\n<p>Even though we&#8217;re the ones who feed him, brush him, clean after him, and keep the kids from destroying him, we&#8217;re old news.  Scout is all about The Boy now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some have called him kingly, aloof, dog-like, and loyal only to those who feed him. There may be some grains of truth in those labels, but the plain truth is: Scout is a lap cat. We thought he was our lap cat, our nightly leg-warmer. Not anymore. Each afternoon and evening, he sits on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}