{"id":187211,"date":"2013-05-12T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/12\/the-cat-has-a-name\/"},"modified":"2013-05-12T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:25:00","slug":"the-cat-has-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/12\/the-cat-has-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat Has a Name!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/y6RTXc7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/>Remember when <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/crowd-sourcing-cat-naming.html\">I asked for help naming our new kitten<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that I did not need to.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I discovered his name.<\/p>\n<p>We were packing to go to an SCA (medieval recreation) event, and the kitten was sitting on our comfy chair.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter Natalie put down a quiver of arrows on the chair, and the kitten promptly began chew on the leather case.<\/p>\n<p>I scowled at the cat, and barked the following instruction to my Daughter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Natalie, get the arrows away from DESTRUCTO!<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a brief stunned paused from the assembled family, and then we all looked at each other, and we realized that we had <b>named the cat<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>There was much rejoicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I asked for help naming our new kitten? Well, it turns out that I did not need to. Yesterday, I discovered his name. We were packing to go to an SCA (medieval recreation) event, and the kitten was sitting on our comfy chair. My daughter Natalie put down a quiver of arrows on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1132,1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-pets","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187211"}],"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=187211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}