{"id":2137,"date":"2007-11-12T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T17:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/12\/in-memory\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:38:53","slug":"in-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/12\/in-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A venerable friend died this morning. My brother and sister-in-law (Aunt LP)&#8217;s cat, Theo, died at home of renal failure and old age. He was 14. I was the first person they called in 1993 when they adopted him in kittenhood. He was a damn smart cat, their genius kitty; as my brother said, Theo &#8220;knew how the outside was connected to the inside (though he&#8217;d never been), how to open doors and cabinets, and how to make us smile.&#8221; I&#8217;m so sad he&#8217;s gone. He was a wonderful furry family member. If you have animal companions at home, give them a little extra love today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/1986257511\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2380\/1986257511_09e904c361.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" alt=\"theo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a photo of an old photo of Theo I snapped when I first moved to Austin in 1994.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts?  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Emme Woodhull-B\u00e4che, translated<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeeveryday.com\/\">Leah<\/a> for sharing the quotation]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A venerable friend died this morning. My brother and sister-in-law (Aunt LP)&#8217;s cat, Theo, died at home of renal failure and old age. He was 14. I was the first person they called in 1993 when they adopted him in kittenhood. He was a damn smart cat, their genius kitty; as my brother said, Theo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,140,69,139],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cat","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-theo"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}