{"id":3523,"date":"2019-06-27T02:49:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2019-06-27T02:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:49:45","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-the-cat-stare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 The Cat Stare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LilySophiestaring-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LilySophiestaring-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LilySophiestaring.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>If you have a cat, you\u2019ve been subjected to the cat stare. It usually happens around meal time or treat time\u2014if you keep your cats on a fairly regular schedule. This is a picture of Lily and Sophie trying to bore a hole through Dennis so he\u2019ll remember to give them their dehydrated chicken treat. How can anyone resist the stare?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the stare means please tell me you aren\u2019t <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LilyCurious-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LilyCurious-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LilyCurious-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LilyCurious.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>leaving me again\u2014all alone\u2026who\u2019s going to feed me? I was at the brunt of Lily\u2019s stare once when I came home from a neighbor home after playing with a couple of kittens. Her look seemed to be saying, \u201cHow could you, you traitor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a cat, you\u2019ve been subjected to the cat stare. It usually happens around meal time or treat time\u2014if you keep your cats on a fairly regular schedule. This is a picture of Lily and Sophie trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3523\">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\/3523"}],"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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}