{"id":675,"date":"2004-11-02T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/11\/02\/welcome-happy-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:43","slug":"welcome-happy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/11\/02\/welcome-happy-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Happy News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crabby has a new family member.  Being a crazy cat lady myself (and sensing I might have been a cat in a previous lifetime, if such exists), I rejoice with her.  This little nugget articulates my experience precisely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The beauty of cats takes my breath away. The pleasure I gain from their appearance, grace and attitude &#8211; and watching their own pleasure at those same attributes &#8211; never wanes; it has never been easy to resist adding more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a title=\"Time Goes By - What it's really like to get older\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timegoesby.net\/2004\/11\/proof_of_my_old.html\">Ronni Bennett<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As stated by Michel de Montaigne, &#8220;When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not<br \/>\namusing herself with me more than I with her?&#8221;  I do enjoy the flirtation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crabby has a new family member. Being a crazy cat lady myself (and sensing I might have been a cat in a previous lifetime, if such exists), I rejoice with her. This little nugget articulates my experience precisely: The beauty of cats takes my breath away. The pleasure I gain from their appearance, grace and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}