{"id":29690,"date":"2019-07-23T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29690"},"modified":"2019-07-23T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:05:36","slug":"briefly-the-cats-are-slowly-getting-back-to-normal-thanks-for-your-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29690","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: The cats are slowly getting back to normal; thanks for your concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thank you so much to everyone who\u2019s contacted me about the recent deaths of Anne<\/a> and Dagny<\/a>. I really appreciate your support, whether I know you or not. You\u2019ve been very kind and thoughtful with your comments. In answer to the most common question, yes, the other cats are starting to get back to normal after a traumatic couple of weeks for them. That\u2019s Molly on the right over the weekend with Merlin in the background. I want to share one email I received Monday from a stranger: \u201cI hate cats, but you made me cry about a cat. I can\u2019t decide whether I hate you for that or if I like it that someone made me feel something new. A friend of mine posted your blog posts about your cat named Dagny passing away. I seriously don\u2019t like cats, so I don\u2019t know why I even clicked. But one thing led to another and I read five posts about your cats. And I was bawling like a baby. I\u2019m sorry you lost the two last week and the ones before that, but I had to tell you that something about your emotions and words about them got to me. Maybe I don\u2019t hate cats after all. You might have messed me up for good, but my girlfriend was happy about it. Sorry for your loss, man.\u201d<\/em> Thanks, Josh, and thanks to everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you so much to everyone who\u2019s contacted me about the recent deaths of Anne and Dagny. I really appreciate your support, whether I know you or not. You\u2019ve been very kind and thoughtful with your comments. In answer to the most common question, yes, the other cats are starting to get back to normal Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7IS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29693,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions\/29693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}