{"id":559,"date":"2010-07-08T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=559"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:33:59","slug":"thursday-cat-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Cat Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember my cat in the houseplant problem?<\/p>\n

\"Mowgli<\/p>\n

I’ve now repotted the little plants I bought and put them up in high places. That might have kept a toddler out of them, but it doesn’t do much to discourage a cat. He keeps jumping to the top of a book case to get at a particularly yummy plant.<\/p>\n

When he does, I fuss at him and rattle some noisy paper at him and make him get down. He stays down until I turn my back or until he decides to defy me to my face, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n

Today, I was in another room, and I heard Mowgli calling to me. I went into the living room to see that he was on top of the book case eating the plant. He had called me in to see him do it.<\/p>\n

That’s when I realized that all this week when I’ve believed I was disciplining my cat I was in fact just playing the “uh oh” game with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember my cat in the houseplant problem? I’ve now repotted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}