{"id":185578,"date":"2014-10-07T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/07\/i-just-had-the-2nd-worst-start-of-the-day-ever\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:14:00","slug":"i-just-had-the-2nd-worst-start-of-the-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/07\/i-just-had-the-2nd-worst-start-of-the-day-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Had the 2nd Worst Start of the Day Ever*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I left for work today, and as I unlocked the door, I looked down, and saw a dead feral kitten by the curb.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it might have been hit by a car. <\/p>\n<p>It was gray, and perhaps 12 weeks old.&nbsp; I had seen it around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>I put on some gloves, and put the cat in a bag, and then in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>It was putrefying, and it was leaking fluid, and it was the worst smell of my life.<\/p>\n<p>In life, it had been a kitten, with all that this entails.<\/p>\n<p>Still kind of freaking, though I managed to put it behind me enough to function at work.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">If you don&#8217;t know #1, you do not need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I left for work today, and as I unlocked the door, I looked down, and saw a dead feral kitten by the curb. I think that it might have been hit by a car. It was gray, and perhaps 12 weeks old.&nbsp; I had seen it around the neighborhood. I put on some gloves, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185578"}],"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=185578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}