{"id":2430,"date":"2018-01-03T05:18:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2018-01-03T05:18:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:18:25","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-come-on-now-a-lego-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2430","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Come on, now\u2014a Lego Cat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophieposter-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophieposter-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophieposter-1-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophieposter-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Yes, there really is a Lego cat kit. Why? Well, it doesn\u2019t eat, doesn\u2019t need a litter box, won\u2019t leave fur all over the furniture, or scratch your new leather recliner chair. And it might be fun to connect the pieces to create something that actually looks like your cat!<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re like me, you have as many real kitty-cats as you can handle and you\u2019ve had more cats than you\u2019ll admit to over the years. And you also have stuffed cats, pictures of cats, ceramic cats, etc. I believe that the cat could be the most copied animal on the planet\u2014you see cats on clothing, on trains (remember my story of cats on trains in Japan?), buildings in the shape of cats, cat jewelry, measuring cups, salt-and-pepper shakers, even coins (yes money) with cats on the. No, not in this country, yet.<\/p>\n<p>So, would you like to try creating cats from Legos? Check them out here: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LilyAlyzayDecember09-015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LilyAlyzayDecember09-015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LilyAlyzayDecember09-015-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LilyAlyzayDecember09-015-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floppycats.com\/cat-sculptures-from-legos.html\">https:\/\/www.floppycats.com\/cat-sculptures-from-legos.html<\/a> I thought you might also be interested in cat posters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allposters.com\/-st\/Cat-Posters_c976_.htm\">https:\/\/www.allposters.com\/-st\/Cat-Posters_c976_.htm<\/a> OMG, there are some cute, interesting, outstanding, artistic, clever posters. My favorite is the 100 Cats and a Mouse poster. I\u2019ve also always liked Le Chat Noir and the poster with all the books and cats\u2014Classic Tails\u2014love that one.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we\u2019re going to talk about the most influential animals of 2016. I think some of them might surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there really is a Lego cat kit. Why? Well, it doesn\u2019t eat, doesn\u2019t need a litter box, won\u2019t leave fur all over the furniture, or scratch your new leather recliner chair. And it might be fun to connect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2430\">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\/2430"}],"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=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}