{"id":8483,"date":"2018-01-14T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:09:19","slug":"beware-the-vengeance-of-cats-for-they-know-where-you-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/beware-the-vengeance-of-cats-for-they-know-where-you-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the vengeance of cats, for they know where you sleep&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not yet. But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p>All through the Great Remodel, there was no feeding the cats in the kitchen&#8212;just too much dust for health, and too much chaos. With my range free-ranging nearly daily and even the icebox waltzing matilda, the fate of the cats&#8217; food tray, well, it was just impossible, and at times I had to get the Terrible Twosome out of harm&#8217;s way of saws and paint.<\/p>\n<p>So I began to feed them in my bedroom, one of the only cluttered-as-may-be but stable places in the house: our bathroom is too small to cuss a cat in (as the saying goes) let alone feed two of them, and the living room was stacked waist-high with boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I decided, now that I have largely de-cluttered my 10&#8217;x 12&#8242; bedroom, except the exercise horse and the card table, I decided to send kittehs back to the kitchen. They get a pre-bed snack in their respective owner&#8217;s bedrooms, but no more breakfast at CJ&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>They are not happy with this: they had their post-constitutional-in-the-garden breakfast in the kitchen, then showed up in my room complaining that the bowls in my room were empty. There were worse looks as I put said bowls away.<\/p>\n<p>Both are sleeping off breakfast now, but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll hear from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not yet. But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s coming. All through the Great Remodel, there was no feeding the cats in the kitchen&#8212;just too much dust for health, and too much chaos. With my range free-ranging nearly daily and even the icebox waltzing matilda, the fate of the cats&#8217; food tray, well, it was just impossible, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}