{"id":2651,"date":"2018-05-02T03:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2018-05-02T03:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T11:16:31","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-cats-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Cats and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/adam2ndbirthday-031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/adam2ndbirthday-031-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/adam2ndbirthday-031-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I couldn\u2019t resist sharing this op-ed piece with you. The title is, \u201cIn this Era of Dog-Eat-Dog Politics, We Need More Cats,\u201d by Cameron Smith. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2018\/04\/in_the_era_of_dog-eat-dog_poli.html\">http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2018\/04\/in_the_era_of_dog-eat-dog_poli.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herein, he compares the way of politics as following the methods a dog uses to handle any challenges before them (or not), to deal with issues, and so forth. And he suggests that maybe politicians should take a more cat-like approach instead. It\u2019s a good read.<\/p>\n<p>I got a kick out of some of his phrases and analogies. He says that a cat doesn\u2019t waste energy and, in fact, even has a nap named after them. He suggests that maybe we need more patience in politics such as the cat demonstrates when hunting, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t resist sharing this op-ed piece with you. The title is, \u201cIn this Era of Dog-Eat-Dog Politics, We Need More Cats,\u201d by Cameron Smith. http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2018\/04\/in_the_era_of_dog-eat-dog_poli.html Herein, he compares the way of politics as following the methods a dog uses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2651\">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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651"}],"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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}