{"id":294,"date":"2006-03-31T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-08-06T22:17:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T02:17:43","slug":"how-i-missed-the-kitties-and-their-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"how I missed the kitties and their antics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was an exciting Kitty Day.  Around lunch I noticed the cats getting really interested in the fireplace, which was making a low buzzing sound.  &#8220;Hmm, must be some bug,&#8221; I figured.  I couldn&#8217;t see anything in there, so I tried to just block it off with a hamper to deter the kitties.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t stop the Tenacious Hermione, who was still quite interested in the buzzing fireplace.  It wasn&#8217;t long after when I hear a high-pitched &#8220;Mwelp!!!&#8221; and see Hermione scurrying away.  I look back at the fireplace to see this big-ass wasp walking along the hearth.  That bug stung my baby!  I rolled up a TV Guide and killed the rat bastard, then checked on Hermione.  She was pissed off but didn&#8217;t seem to have any adverse reactions to the sting.  &#8220;I told you to stay away from the fireplace,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>I go to mess on the computer for a while and see Renton head to the kitty box on my right.  He comes back out, sits a minute, then heads back in.  Back out, sits, goes back in a third time.  He&#8217;s looking a bit disgruntled, so I&#8217;m thinking he&#8217;s backed up.  Again.  I wonder what he ate this time.  We get to go to the vet later today to find out.  I hope this won&#8217;t be a repeat of the Three-Enema Week (which I apparently never wrote about but I assure you it was quite an event).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was an exciting Kitty Day. Around lunch I noticed the cats getting really interested in the fireplace, which was making a low buzzing sound. &#8220;Hmm, must be some bug,&#8221; I figured. I couldn&#8217;t see anything in there, so I tried to just block it off with a hamper to deter the kitties. This doesn&#8217;t [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}