{"id":93,"date":"2005-03-13T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-04-06T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:59:14","slug":"el-gato-gordo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/93","title":{"rendered":"El Gato Gordo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday,   March 13 2005<br \/>\n10:00 a.m. &#8211; Wake up and eat a croissant. Knit while watching college basketball<br \/>\n11:00 a.m. &#8211; Jason wakes up and looks at me confusedly as I am watching college basketball<br \/>\n12:00 p.m. &#8211; Jake,   Jason,   and I watch Freaks and Geeks episode that begins with drumalong to Rush song.<br \/>\n2:00 p.m. &#8211; Leave Jason&#8217;s, drive up to Kenosha.<br \/>\n3:30 p.m. &#8211; Meet woman who is offering up her cat. Sit around for an hour and a half as she tells stories about cat. Daughter is at the age where she&#8217;s experimenting with humor. She refers to their basement as three things: dirty, dirty, and dirty. Watch 1 year old wrench cat&#8217;s tail around and pull lots of hair out. Become convinced that I must take cat with me. Woman refers to cat as Katrina, Trina, Treeny, and Mon Chi Chi. Contemplate changing a 13-year-old cat&#8217;s name.<br \/>\n5:00 p.m. &#8211; Thank God. Finally leave with cat in carrier, water and food dispensers, litter box, and rabies papers. Even if the cat kicks it tomorrow, will have saved $100 in pet accoutrement<br \/>\n5:40 p.m. &#8211; After mewing in a 4\/4 rhythm for the duration car ride, cat and I return to Casa Waukegan. I put out food, water, and litter box, and orient cat to new setup.<br \/>\n7:00 p.m. &#8211; Having called Allison and Alena to brag about fluffy kitty, I settled down to watch Simpsons and Arrested Development and knit.<br \/>\n8:30 p.m. &#8211; Switch over to crap detective program, and become enthralled with knitting.<br \/>\n8:40 p.m. &#8211; The cat is watching TV. Hm.<br \/>\n10:30 p.m. &#8211; Cat begins mewing in 4\/4 time again, and decide that cat is telling me to shut off lights and go to bed.<br \/>\n11:00 p.m. &#8211; Shut off lights and read &quot;The Tipping Point&quot; in bed.<br \/>\n11:03 p.m. &#8211; Cat begins meowing in 6\/8 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, March 13 2005 10:00 a.m. &#8211; Wake up and eat a croissant. Knit while watching college basketball 11:00 a.m. &#8211; Jason wakes up and looks at me confusedly as I am watching college basketball 12:00 p.m. &#8211; Jake, Jason, and I watch Freaks and Geeks episode that begins with drumalong to Rush song. 2:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","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\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}