{"id":24038,"date":"2018-06-15T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2018-06-15T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:26:59","slug":"my-life-in-cats-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24038","title":{"rendered":"My life in cats: Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aurora.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1748\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aurora.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Aurora\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1748\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aurora.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aurora.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aurora.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aurora.jpg?resize=400%2C300 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I should document my life in cats.<\/p>\n<p>My friend\u2019s cat Aurora is a very intelligent, very grand-looking tortoiseshell maine coon. She\u2019s very self-possessed and polite to me&#8211;but not overly so, because generally when I\u2019m over, it\u2019s feeding time. And if it\u2019s \u201ctime to feed the kitty,\u201d then focusing on anything other than food is not on.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora has some rare behaviors &#8212; for instance, she will correct her behavior when my friend reminds her to remember her decorum. When my cats hear us tell them things like \u201crespect boundaries,\u201d they look up with wild eyes, writhe around in a circle, and then bolt across the room. <\/p>\n<p>Many of my friends\u2019 cats are female, where all of ours are male. I don\u2019t know how much there really is a behavioral difference between male and female cats, but it always feels like there is. Ours are energetic, ridiculous goofs. Aurora has this thing called dignity. I\u2019d try to explain what \u201cdignity\u201d was to our cats, but then they\u2019d just look up with wild eyes, writhe around in a circle, and bolt across the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think I should document my life in cats. My friend&rsquo;s cat Aurora is a very intelligent, very grand-looking tortoiseshell maine coon. She&rsquo;s very self-possessed and polite to me&ndash;but not overly so, because generally when I&rsquo;m over, it&rsquo;s feeding &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2018\/06\/aurora\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-living-a-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24198,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}