{"id":3834,"date":"2019-11-20T03:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2019-11-20T03:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:32:46","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-cats-cats-everywhere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3834","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Cats, Cats Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/georgegardencat-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/georgegardencat-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/georgegardencat-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/georgegardencat.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>A lot of people collect things\u2014tea cups, salt and pepper shakers, dolls, bears, thimbles, books, succulents, antiques, tools, baseball cards&#8230; My youngest daughter collects hearts. Everywhere she goes she sees hearts, in puddles after a rain, in a dewy spider web, in the clouds, in tree bark in a cat\u2019s fur pattern\u2026 Her grandchildren bring her heart-shaped rocks, leaves, <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/litterboxart1-e1535543454550-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/litterboxart1-e1535543454550-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/litterboxart1-e1535543454550-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/litterboxart1-e1535543454550.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>seashells and other things.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I see cats wherever I go\u2014in the stores I visit (as I mentioned yesterday), in windows along the street, sitting on <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_6923-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_6923-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_6923-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_6923-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>neighborhood fences, and even sometimes in the litter box. Here\u2019s a cat-shaped clump from you know where. (I\u2019ve also taken pictures of heart-shaped clumps for my daughter.)<\/p>\n<p>Last week I took this picture of what looked to me like a cat painted in mud on the pavement. Can you see it or is it just me?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people collect things\u2014tea cups, salt and pepper shakers, dolls, bears, thimbles, books, succulents, antiques, tools, baseball cards&#8230; My youngest daughter collects hearts. Everywhere she goes she sees hearts, in puddles after a rain, in a dewy spider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3834\">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":[15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834"}],"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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}