{"id":181463,"date":"2016-06-19T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/19\/this-may-be-the-most-decorated-cat-in-history\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T00:04:00","slug":"this-may-be-the-most-decorated-cat-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/19\/this-may-be-the-most-decorated-cat-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This May Be the Most Decorated Cat in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dWwdi4y.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dWwdi4y.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Pooli, AKA Princess Papule, was a ship&#8217;s cat born in 1944 who served on the attack transport USS Fremont, <a href=\"http:\/\/framework.latimes.com\/2012\/11\/09\/world-war-ii-cat-turns-15\/\">earning three service ribbons and four battle stars<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A World War II veteran cat today celebrates her 15th birthday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And she can still get into her old uniform with its three service ribbons and four battle stars.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The cat, Pooli, short for Princess Papule, was born July 4, 1944, in the Navy yard at Pearl Harbor, her present owner, Benjamin H. Kirk, said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Kirk explained that Pooli was taken aboard the attack transport USS Fremont that day by his nephew, James I. Lynch, now a specialist in administrative services for the Board of Education.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pooli saw action at the Marianas, the Palau group, the Philippines and Iwo Jima. And she became a shellback when the ship crossed the equator.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Kirk revealed that when battle stations rang, Pooli would head for the mail room and curl up in a mail sack.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now this is a life well lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pooli, AKA Princess Papule, was a ship&#8217;s cat born in 1944 who served on the attack transport USS Fremont, earning three service ribbons and four battle stars: A World War II veteran cat today celebrates her 15th birthday.And she can still get into her old uniform with its three service ribbons and four battle stars.The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1132,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-pets","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}