{"id":18070,"date":"2004-01-15T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2004\/01\/15\/goofy-cat-stories"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"goofy-cat-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2004\/01\/15\/goofy-cat-stories","title":{"rendered":"Goofy cat stories."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Thu Jan 15 14:28:14 PST 2004 --><br \/>\n<!-- T: \"Goofy cat stories.\" --><\/p>\n<p>Some cat weirdness around the house today (must be a combination of<br \/>\nthe weather, which just turned wet, and the fact that I&rsquo;ve been cleaning<br \/>\nfor company).<\/p>\n<p><b>12 PM.<\/b>&emsp; I really frightened Emmaline:<br \/>\nI had started the washer, and she was sitting outside the<br \/>\nlaundry room, really apprehensively.  She lost focus a little, and<br \/>\nturned away, and that happened to be when I turned around and stepped<br \/>\nout of the room.  She was so startled at my &ldquo;sudden&rdquo; movement (read: not<br \/>\npredicted) that she leapt backward, and then shouted at me for a few<br \/>\nseconds.  Long, solid, loud WAH!s.  Like, &ldquo;Yeeahh!  You scared me!<br \/>\nDon&rsquo;t DO that!&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>3:23 PM.<\/b>&emsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=irc>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> I just cursed Albert up and down.  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> I had swept all the crap from the kitchen, hall, and foyer floors into my dustpan.  While I picked up the dustpan,<br \/>\n  Albert decided to lie down on the ledge just above the trash; with my<br \/>\n  hands full, I couldn&rsquo;t move him, but it didn&rsquo;t even seem like there was<br \/>\n  any reason to.\n  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> Until he stretched, fell OFF the counter, and onto the dustpan, sending all that crap EVERYWHERE.\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>4:16 PM.<\/b>&emsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=irc>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> Albert got me good.  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> He really harassed Armand, so I went to break it up.\n  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> I walked away carefully, making sure he wasn&rsquo;t following me.\n  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> Once I was sure he had lost interest, I walked away less warily.\n  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> I then felt kitty paws on my butt and legs. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> He&rsquo;d done a full running leap and grabbed me in the ass!\n  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"irc-nick\">&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\">dsandler<\/a>&gt;<\/span> I shut him in the bedroom for a little while. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some cat weirdness around the house today (must be a combination of the weather, which just turned wet, and the fact that I&rsquo;ve been cleaning for company). 12 PM.&emsp; I really frightened Emmaline: I had started the washer, and she was sitting outside the laundry room, really apprehensively. She lost focus a little, and turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}