{"id":80,"date":"2005-02-26T22:23:30","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T04:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/24\/new-member-of-the-family\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T08:28:17","slug":"new-member-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"New Member of the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to say &#8220;household&#8221;, but Holly insists that our new cat is a member of the <em>family<\/em>. &#8220;Simon&#8221; (he&#8217;s Siamese, get it?) had been hanging around outside for over a week, sometimes disappearing for a short time, but always turning back up on our doorstep. Well, it looks like we&#8217;re going to take him in for good. I would never have guessed that Michelle would accept a <strong>stray cat<\/strong> into the house, but this guy is so handsome and has such a fun personality that she just couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5185.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"112\" alt=\"IMG_5185.JPG (106613 bytes)\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5185_small.JPG\" width=\"150\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5287.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"112\" alt=\"IMG_5287.JPG (102853 bytes)\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5287_small.JPG\" width=\"150\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5188.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"112\" alt=\"IMG_5188.JPG (59170 bytes)\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5188_small.JPG\" width=\"150\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5289.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"112\" alt=\"IMG_5289.JPG (58740 bytes)\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/simon\/IMG_5289_small.JPG\" width=\"150\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">At first, it seemed like Simon&#8217;s biggest personality trait would be how affectionate he is, but it soon became apparent that he loves to play. His favorite solo toys are Holly&#8217;s elastic ponytail holders. He can flip one of these things into the air with either his mouth or paws, and remain entertained by it for a surprisingly long time. He also likes to play hide and seek, with an emphasis on chasing and being chased. He <em>used<\/em> to enjoy staring at the mouse pointer moving around on <a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/hometheater\/\">the big movie screen<\/a> as I would browse the web and read emails. That was until he actually jumped to grab the mouse pointer and tore a few holes in the fabric! He&#8217;s not allowed anywhere near the screen now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to say &#8220;household&#8221;, but Holly insists that our new cat is a member of the family. &#8220;Simon&#8221; (he&#8217;s Siamese, get it?) had been hanging around outside for over a week, sometimes disappearing for a short time, but always turning back up on our doorstep. Well, it looks like we&#8217;re going to take him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}