{"id":1591,"date":"2016-11-03T04:49:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2016-11-03T04:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:49:59","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-from-some-of-our-most-eloquent-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 From Some of Our Most Eloquent Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cats-in-clouds1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Heavenly Cats\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cats-in-clouds1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cats-in-clouds1-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cats-in-clouds1.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heavenly Cats<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;There are two means of refuge from the misery of life \u2014 music and cats.\u201d Albert Schweitzer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCats are connoisseurs of comfort.\u201d James Herriot<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have lived with several Zen masters &#8212; all of them cats.\u201d Eckhart Tolle<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.\u201d Robertson Davies<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.\u201d Jules Verne<\/p>\n<p>PS: This is a picture of some of the cats I&#8217;ve loved and who have gone over the Rainbow Bridge. From the left, Winfield, Rosie (orange and white), Daisy (calico), Crystal (center), Katy (Himalayan), Carlie (lower right) Gus (grey and white).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are two means of refuge from the misery of life \u2014 music and cats.\u201d Albert Schweitzer \u201cCats are connoisseurs of comfort.\u201d James Herriot \u201cI have lived with several Zen masters &#8212; all of them cats.\u201d Eckhart Tolle \u201cAuthors like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1591\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}