{"id":5138,"date":"2012-07-07T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2013-01-24T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T01:52:32","slug":"cat-urday-if-you-cant-beat-emgive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/07\/cat-urday-if-you-cant-beat-emgive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"cat-urday: if you can&#8217;t beat em\u2026give in."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Sadie is not a particularly demonstrative or affectionate cat.  She lasts about 20 seconds if I try to get her to sit in my lap, and she&#8217;d much rather curl up under my ottoman (where I can&#8217;t reach\/annoy her) than anywhere else.  She has always felt compelled to be in the same room as me, following from place to place, but she keeps a wary\/respectful distance.<\/p>\n<p>But in the past few weeks or so, she&#8217;s decided that she needs to be on my desk whenever I am sitting at the computer.  At first, this amounted to stretching herself along the narrow strip of available desktop between the wall any my keyboard, usually with an attempt to co-opt my trackpad into some sort of pillow.  For the past few days though, she&#8217;s decided that she would like to fit herself into one of the stackable baskets that I keep office supplies in.  With the office supplies still in there (and not just stacks of paper either, we&#8217;re talking pens, tchochkes, extra computer cords, etc.).  So this morning I finally gave in, cleared out the top bin, and put in the liner from her carrier (which takes up too much room in the carrier anyway).  It took her about 3 seconds to figure out what I had done, and each time i sit down at my desk, she immediately parks herself in her new spot and starts purring REALLY loudly.  I try not to anthropomorphize her too much, but I&#8217;d say I made her very happy today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border =\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0313.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"695\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadie is not a particularly demonstrative or affectionate cat. She lasts about 20 seconds if I try to get her to sit in my lap, and she&#8217;d much rather curl up under my ottoman (where I can&#8217;t reach\/annoy her) than anywhere else. She has always felt compelled to be in the same room as me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[47,10],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cat","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-1kS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}