{"id":164,"date":"2011-03-26T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-03-26T22:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T05:02:35","slug":"lexi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Lexi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"lexi glamour shot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5562253432\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5022\/5562253432_b97b4c414d.jpg\" alt=\"lexi glamor shot\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>I usually try to represent myself fairly accurately here on my blog, but I must admit there&#8217;s one aspect of my life I&#8217;ve tried to keep quiet so far. Folks, I am a bona fide cat lady.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"lexi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5561664061\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5179\/5561664061_a71dbd5494.jpg\" alt=\"lexi\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>If you are Nick, or my dear friend Emily, or one of my equally cat-obsessed co-workers, you likely already knew this. But for those of you I&#8217;m not so intimately acquainted with, the truth is out&#8211; I think my cat is awesome, and I will not apologize for it. And here is the cat photography to prove it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"lexi close up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5562245376\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5226\/5562245376_a9c7dda373.jpg\" alt=\"lexi close up\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>To be fair, she is an unusually fantastic pet. She&#8217;s a total lap cat; she is quick to purr and has never hissed once; and she is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polydactyl_cat\" target=\"_blank\">polydactyl<\/a>, which makes her paws adorably over-sized. I bring this all up because it was a year ago this month that we brought her home from the cat shelter. And while I had no idea how much time I would spend sweeping up kitty litter this last year, I am glad she&#8217;s part of my life. Totally worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually try to represent myself fairly accurately here on my blog, but I must admit there&#8217;s one aspect of my life I&#8217;ve tried to keep quiet so far. Folks, I am a bona fide cat lady. If you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}