{"id":859,"date":"2005-04-25T13:38:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T21:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/04\/25\/love-toy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:29","slug":"love-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/04\/25\/love-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have wonderful neighbors who cat-sit while we are out of town.  Returning from our recent trip, we found L had purchased a cat toy:  a mouse made of rug 9.5&#8243; x 5&#8243; with a spring and fuzzy ball on top.  Well, this is the <em>best toy ever<\/em>, according to Stella.  Although it is bulky and cumbersome, she carries it throughout the house.  She yodels (with her mouth full) and waddles as she carries it.  It&#8217;s quite a treat to watch &#8212; funny and endearing.  She often drops her gift at my feet, and I praise her to high heaven for it. <\/p>\n<p>I had the presence of mind to grab the camera a few minutes ago when I heard the telltale jingle of the bell and her singing.  Below is the result.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/10910724\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos6.flickr.com\/10910724_f61355bda0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"stella's lovetoy\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/10910723\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos6.flickr.com\/10910723_e3a592e65f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"stella shares\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have wonderful neighbors who cat-sit while we are out of town. Returning from our recent trip, we found L had purchased a cat toy: a mouse made of rug 9.5&#8243; x 5&#8243; with a spring and fuzzy ball on top. Well, this is the best toy ever, according to Stella. Although it is bulky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}