{"id":8519,"date":"2018-02-04T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2018-02-04T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:14:14","slug":"four-footed-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/four-footed-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-footed lawyer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I can let the kitties out to exercise, they&#8217;ve been, well, more active. And to assure I get them back quickly and efficiently, I always give out a small handful of kibble to each (in separate places) &#8212;this means when I call, they come running.<\/p>\n<p>Well, and then there&#8217;s Shu, our lazybones who chills very easily (Bengal, tropical in origin) &#8212;and who didn&#8217;t want to go out today because, well, damp. So Sei went out&#8212;raced out. Shu u-turned back to the kitchen and has sat warm and dry.<\/p>\n<p>I just noticed it&#8217;s raining out there. So I go out, call, and back bounds Sei, slightly damp but happy. <\/p>\n<p>I come in and Shu is sitting expectantly by the food bowl, the scoundrel. The legal question is obviously, &#8220;Does it count if HE went out? We still get kibble, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no way to argue Constitutional law with a cat. Both got kibble because I want to maintain the association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I can let the kitties out to exercise, they&#8217;ve been, well, more active. And to assure I get them back quickly and efficiently, I always give out a small handful of kibble to each (in separate places) &#8212;this means when I call, they come running. Well, and then there&#8217;s Shu, our lazybones who chills [&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-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","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=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}