{"id":1432,"date":"2016-08-11T05:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2016-08-11T05:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:21:28","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-cats-and-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Cats and Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LilyOwlIMG_2288-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"LilyOwlIMG_2288\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LilyOwlIMG_2288-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LilyOwlIMG_2288.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I couldn\u2019t resist sharing this picture I took of Lily and a stuffed owl my granddaughter gave me. Lily looks like she&#8217;s singing to him.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been sneaking around the meadows where I take my daily walk, trying to photograph a great horned owl family. And I find it interesting how cat-like the owls are. Those owls stare through large round eyes similar to cat eyes. The owls\u2019 found faces, ear tufts, and soft feathers also give them a cat-like appearance. Yet in reality and in nature, cats are prey to owls.<\/p>\n<p>But not all owls and cats seem to know this, as some have become unlikely friends and playmates, as in the children\u2019s story, <em>The Owl and the Pussycat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this unlikely pal duo. Tooooo cute: <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/goejottshnonnqpkg7st.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t resist sharing this picture I took of Lily and a stuffed owl my granddaughter gave me. Lily looks like she&#8217;s singing to him. I\u2019ve been sneaking around the meadows where I take my daily walk, trying to photograph &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1432\">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":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}