{"id":226,"date":"2005-06-19T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/226"},"modified":"2005-06-19T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T19:14:03","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-previous-owner-to-my-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/226","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to the previous owner to my cat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Candy, <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry. I really thought that when I answered that interoffice ad for a free cat,   I would really enjoy having an inside cat. Ironically, if you look at the URL, it turns out that I hate having an inside cat. I grew up on a farm, see, and although I&#8217;ve enjoyed having many cats as pets, I&#8217;ve never really experienced what it&#8217;s like to have a superfurry animal in my carpeted and upholstered home.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I tried. I liked having a <em>cat<\/em> but I hate that she&#8217;s so furry. Oh, I guess that&#8217;s what makes her cute, because those naked cats aren&#8217;t fun. Anyway, I have hair on everything I own, and I like wearing black. I feel like a selfish discarding a pet &#8211; especially since there&#8217;s nothing actually wrong with the cat, other than having a lot of hair that comes off. I mean, every day I brush the cat, and there&#8217;s a kitten-sized pile of hair sitting next to the cat.<\/p>\n<p>You said that if I decided that it wouldn&#8217;t work out, I should bring the cat back. I know you meant right away, but it&#8217;s only been four months. Whadda you say?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, and see you soon,<br \/>\nSonya<\/p>\n<p>p.s. &#8211; if Candy doesn&#8217;t want her cat back, does anyone else want it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/94563165@N00\/20363955\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos15.flickr.com\/20363955_bbc71cd094_m.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"240\" alt=\"katrina\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Candy, I&#8217;m sorry. I really thought that when I answered that interoffice ad for a free cat, I would really enjoy having an inside cat. Ironically, if you look at the URL, it turns out that I hate having an inside cat. I grew up on a farm, see, and although I&#8217;ve enjoyed having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}