{"id":1419,"date":"2014-06-08T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2014-06-08T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:10:51","slug":"release-the-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"release the kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as cats go, Watson has been the epitome of normal. He usually is running around like a bat out of hell, hunting his little spring toys, pieces of paper, or the kids&#8217; ankles. There has been no crazy barfing, no eating of afghans, no missing of the litter box. The oddest thing I can say about him is he has a bit of an addiction to peppermint. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably jinxing myself here. <\/p>\n<p>Despite his normalcy, he was successful in freaking me out the other night. Steven and I were lounging on the bed watching snarky movie commentaries when Watson came bounding up to us after running laps around the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p>He is munching on something. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;cha got, Watson?&#8221; I ask. <\/p>\n<p>He looks right into my face and stretches open his mouth, releasing a humongous black <strong><em>something<\/em><\/strong> out of his mouth and onto my ear. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yahhohmygodwhatthefuckgetitoffholyshit!!!&#8221; I scream while bounding backwards off the bed. Steven looks around frantically for the Satan Bug. <\/p>\n<p>We never found out what exactly Watson had leashed upon me. We&#8217;re pretty certain he finished the job and ate his prize soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as cats go, Watson has been the epitome of normal. He usually is running around like a bat out of hell, hunting his little spring toys, pieces of paper, or the kids&#8217; ankles. There has been no crazy barfing, no eating of afghans, no missing of the litter box. The oddest thing I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}