{"id":259,"date":"2011-08-13T05:35:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=259"},"modified":"2011-08-13T05:35:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:35:32","slug":"winning-cat-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Winning Cat Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smokeybee-0141-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"smokeybee-0141\" title=\"smokeybee-0141\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smokeybee-0141-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smokeybee-0141-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nI learned this morning that this photo I took of my mother\u2019s cat, Smokey, won the People\u2019s Choice Award in our Ventura County Fair photography exhibit. <\/p>\n<p>The judges bypassed it, but fair goers sure liked it. It is rather spectacular. But I can\u2019t take credit for it. All I did was press the shutter release button. Smokey is the one who created this great action shot by leaping into the frame. <\/p>\n<p>Photography and cats sure go together, don\u2019t they? I have hundreds of pictures of my cats, but you don\u2019t get one like this very often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned this morning that this photo I took of my mother\u2019s cat, Smokey, won the People\u2019s Choice Award in our Ventura County Fair photography exhibit. The judges bypassed it, but fair goers sure liked it. It is rather spectacular. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}