{"id":39615,"date":"2026-05-31T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=39615"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:10:06","slug":"parody-video-what-do-your-cats-do-when-youre-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=39615","title":{"rendered":"Parody video: What do your cats do when you\u2019re away from home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alex-as-DJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39617\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alex-as-DJ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alex-as-DJ.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alex-as-DJ-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alex-as-DJ-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what cats do when you\u2019re not home? What might they be hiding from you? Welcome to the secret neighborhood \u201cCat Rave on Thomas Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just don\u2019t let the humans know about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest of my ridiculous parody videos that I started making a few months ago. My first few videos were very simple, but the last few have gotten increasingly complex. This one is the most complicated and was the most time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been enjoying these as a creative outlet, but they\u2019re not worth a nickel. Very few people have found the YouTube channel where I\u2019ve started posting them, so I\u2019d appreciate it if you would \u201clike\u201d some of them and subscribe to the account if you use YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SjugXPzb1G4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCat Rave on Thomas Avenue\u201d here<\/a> or click below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjugXPzb1G4?si=w3hlPYD71R4IAOOq\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what cats do when you\u2019re not home? What might they be hiding from you? Welcome to the secret neighborhood \u201cCat Rave on Thomas Avenue.\u201d Just don\u2019t let the humans know about it. This is the latest of my ridiculous parody videos that I started making a few months ago. My first <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=39615\" class=\"more-link\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-aiX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39615","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=39615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39622,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39615\/revisions\/39622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}