{"id":3435,"date":"2019-05-14T04:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2019-05-14T04:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T12:44:35","slug":"newsday-tuesday-why-do-we-love-animal-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3435","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 Why Do We Love Animal Videos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LilyBox1-e1557837851899-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LilyBox1-e1557837851899-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LilyBox1-e1557837851899-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LilyBox1-e1557837851899.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>If you\u2019re like me, you love seeing cute cat videos and photos on the Internet. In fact, I enjoy watching the antics of any animal\u2014horse, hedgehog, duck\u2014did you see the momma duck who had somehow collected over 50 ducklings? And she had them all lined up in a row, too. Talk about super mom.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an interesting article explaining why so many of us are addicted to animal videos on the Internet. I don\u2019t know about you, but when I go on facebook, I flip through political messages, advertisements, any sort of bashing posts or negativity. What am I looking for? Sweet messages and cute and interesting animal videos and pictures. Evidently I\u2019m not alone. According to this article, first appearing in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, sweet animal videos are a small window of grace in a world full of negativity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/09\/magazine\/animal-videos-are-how-we-escape-the-internet-while-on-the-internet.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FCats&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=science&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=collection\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/09\/magazine\/animal-videos-are-how-we-escape-the-internet-while-on-the-internet.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FCats&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=science&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=collection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like me, you love seeing cute cat videos and photos on the Internet. In fact, I enjoy watching the antics of any animal\u2014horse, hedgehog, duck\u2014did you see the momma duck who had somehow collected over 50 ducklings? And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3435\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435"}],"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=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}