{"id":2045,"date":"2018-09-05T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2019-01-03T23:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T04:21:53","slug":"feral-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/05\/feral-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fairly robust colony of feral cats here in the neighborhood. And for a population of strays, I must say they look pretty sleek and well fed.<\/p>\n<p>They also seem to be a rather happy lot: hiding under bushes, rolling in the grass, chasing each other.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, they spend a lot of time just sitting around waiting for food. <\/p>\n<p>Which, come to think of it, makes them pretty much like <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/21\/morning-cats\/\">every other cat in the neighborhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The feral cats live one parking lot over from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/22\/parking-lot-seagulls\/\">parking lot seagulls<\/a>. I wonder if their paths ever cross.<\/p>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery66\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"856\" alt=\"Feral Cat\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat2-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat2-768x642.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat5.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Feral Cat\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat5.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat5-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FeralCat5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Follow along with me on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/tag\/year-of-the-dog\/\">Year of the Dog challenge<\/a> &#8212; a new dog-related post every Walkabout Wednesday. Or, feel free to read <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/portfolio\/down-girl-and-sit-series\/\">Down Girl and Sit<\/a> any day of the week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fairly robust colony of feral cats here in the neighborhood. And for a population of strays, I must say they look pretty sleek and well fed. They also seem to be a rather happy lot: hiding under &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/05\/feral-cats\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[12,26,56],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday","tag-year-of-the-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}