{"id":2227,"date":"2017-09-14T03:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2017-09-14T03:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:47:22","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-rags-the-cat-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Rags (the cat) Speaks Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CorralCatCaper-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Corral Cat Caper, a Klepto Cat Mystery\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CorralCatCaper-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CorralCatCaper.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>As you may know, there are cozy mysteries with ordinary cats doing extraordinary things, like the Klepto Cat Mysteries. And there are those where the cats actually speak. There\u2019s such a controversy between the two styles of writing cat stories that a reporter for the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> tackled the issue a few years ago. I was one of the lucky few who were interviewed for that article. As I said, while the cats (and dogs and horses) in the Klepto Cat Mysteries often dominate the stories, they do not have speaking parts. That is\u2026until Dru Ann Asked Rags (yes the cat) to write a post for her Drus Book Musing blog.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to know more about what Rags thinks, how is mind works, and what he would say if he could, here\u2019s your chance.\u00a0 In this interview, he talks about some of is catscapades. I think you\u2019ll find it interesting. Here\u2019s the link. <a href=\"https:\/\/drusbookmusing.com\/2017\/09\/14\/rags-ivey\/\">https:\/\/drusbookmusing.com\/2017\/09\/14\/rags-ivey\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, there are cozy mysteries with ordinary cats doing extraordinary things, like the Klepto Cat Mysteries. And there are those where the cats actually speak. There\u2019s such a controversy between the two styles of writing cat stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2227\">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":[15,6,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}