{"id":1582,"date":"2016-10-28T04:58:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2016-10-28T04:58:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:58:50","slug":"frivolous-friday-national-cat-day-october-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Friday &#8212; National Cat Day, October 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/karens-kitties-013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens waiting for a home\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/karens-kitties-013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/karens-kitties-013-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/karens-kitties-013.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kittens waiting for a home<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some of us celebrate cats every day of the year. Our cats demand that we do, right? We take care of and spoil our one, two, or a handful of cats. As with every worthwhile endeavor, there are a few who go way above and beyond. Since we\u2019re celebrating National Cat Day tomorrow, I wanted to offer up a few ideas for you to honor cats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make pillows, cat beds, or simple blankets out of cat print and deliver them to your local animal shelter.<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer to socialize cats that are up for adoption.<\/li>\n<li>Make your cat healthy treats. Here are a few recipes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustlovecats.net\/homemade-cat-treats.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mustlovecats.net\/homemade-cat-treats.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dress up like a cat for Halloween.<\/li>\n<li>Make room for one more homeless cat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are twenty more ideas: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcatday.com\/celebrate\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nationalcatday.com\/celebrate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us celebrate cats every day of the year. Our cats demand that we do, right? We take care of and spoil our one, two, or a handful of cats. As with every worthwhile endeavor, there are a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1582\">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":[30,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}