{"id":390,"date":"2005-04-21T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=390"},"modified":"2015-02-24T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T23:10:23","slug":"on-the-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"On the Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I own three cats.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s Tails, of whom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=85\">I&#8217;ve written before<\/a>.  And there&#8217;s the Boys &#8212; Woodrow and Leo, two brothers I took in nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Leo hasn&#8217;t been seen since Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Woody and Leo have been inseparable.  When one&#8217;s not around the other gets fidgety, though more on Woodrow&#8217;s part than Leo&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow seems sad, depressed.  He knows Leo&#8217;s not around.  He wanders around the house miaowing mournfully, hoping to get Leo&#8217;s attention.  He&#8217;s sleeping in strange places.<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow likes to play.  He can&#8217;t with Tails &#8212; she doesn&#8217;t like people, and she only tolerated Woody and Leo as long as they stayed out of her space.  He&#8217;s anxious.<\/p>\n<p>So, Woody&#8217;s been clingey.  He&#8217;s needed a lot of attention the last day or two, far more than normal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m holding out hope that Leo is just in one of his moods, that he&#8217;ll turn up on the porch as though nothing&#8217;s happened.  I want to think that.<\/p>\n<p>I hope so, for Woody&#8217;s sake.  And mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I own three cats. There&#8217;s Tails, of whom I&#8217;ve written before. And there&#8217;s the Boys &#8212; Woodrow and Leo, two brothers I took in nearly two years ago. Leo hasn&#8217;t been seen since Sunday. Woody and Leo have been inseparable. When one&#8217;s not around the other gets fidgety, though more on Woodrow&#8217;s part than Leo&#8217;s.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Cats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[4132],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","tag-cats","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}