{"id":1073,"date":"2016-03-01T05:49:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2016-03-01T05:49:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:49:12","slug":"newsday-tuesday-talking-cats-versus-silent-cats-according-to-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday\u2014Talking Cats Versus Silent Cats according to the Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rags, the Klepto Cat, made the front page of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> today as one of the silent majority!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smokey-001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"smokey-001\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smokey-001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smokey-001-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/smokey-001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I didn\u2019t know there was a controversy between talking cats in fiction and ordinary cats until I got a call from <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reporter, Jennifer Maloney. We talked on this topic for nearly an hour. She interviewed several other authors of cat fiction\u2014a sub-genre of the cozy mystery\u2014and put together a fun and lively piece featuring the pros and cons of the topic. It hit the front page of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> today. Here\u2019s the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/article_email\/in-the-world-of-cat-fiction-fur-flies-over-whether-stars-get-speaking-roles-1456799256-lMyQjAxMTA2MzAxMTMwMDE2Wj\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/article_email\/in-the-world-of-cat-fiction-fur-flies-over-whether-stars-get-speaking-roles-1456799256-lMyQjAxMTA2MzAxMTMwMDE2Wj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rags, the Klepto Cat, made the front page of the Wall Street Journal today as one of the silent majority! I didn\u2019t know there was a controversy between talking cats in fiction and ordinary cats until I got a call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}