{"id":1678,"date":"2005-07-20T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2005-08-27T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T23:43:35","slug":"expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night someone appealed on <a href=\"http:\/\/freecycle.org\/\">Freecycle<\/a> to have a stray kitten taken off his hands.  Our <a href=\"?p=732\">perennial<\/a> talk of adding a kitten to our roster had recently become more serious; so, in short, we are the new guardians of a scrawny black tomkitten named Pillow.<\/p>\n<p>We had heard that it&#8217;s good to keep the new and incumbent cats separated for a few days until each is accustomed to the presence of the other&#8217;s scent; so Pillow is temporarily confined to the master bedroom, the rest of the apartment remaining Fluffie&#8217;s sole domain for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Another trick we&#8217;ve heard of is to smear butter on the kitten&#8217;s head and get Fluffie to lick it off, thus tricking her into a bit of maternal bonding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday:<\/strong> Vet says he&#8217;s three months old, though tiny for that age.  It&#8217;s a bit of a mystery to me how he can be so neglected and so tame.  (He hisses and struggles when I pull him from his hiding-place, but then is quite content to be held.)  Though afflicted with fleas, roundworm and a respiratory infection, he is happily free of leukemia\/immunodeficiency virus.  His isolation will continue for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night someone appealed on Freecycle to have a stray kitten taken off his hands. Our perennial talk of adding a kitten to our roster had recently become more serious; so, in short, we are the new guardians of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}