{"id":4092,"date":"2020-03-26T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2020-03-26T03:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:21:13","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-lily-is-a-star-once-again-special-offer-for-cozy-mystery-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Lily is a Star Once Again + Special Offer for Cozy Mystery Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s seriously unprecedented times. We\u2019re all shifting gears and finding new and different ways to cope and to fill our time. That\u2019s why I\u2019m offering CATNAPPED<\/strong>, the first in the Klepto Cat Mystery series (Kindle version) for 99 cents for a week starting today. Order your copy at Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I talked about challenges in cat photography.\"\" Occasionally, however, the cats cooperate or I happen to get a winning shot. Like the time I won third place with my Turkish van cat, Rosie. She was sitting on the windowsill looking out at an otter that had found its way into our pool one rainy afternoon. At the time I took the picture I didn\u2019t know what she was looking at. She turned and posed and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019ve since placed with my photography in the Ventura County fair, but rarely with a cat photo. I\u2019ve also entered pictures in the Cat-a-Day Calendar contest. Don\u2019t you love the Cat-a-Day Calendars put out by Workman? Twice they\u2019ve chosen my photos and both of them were of Lily.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Cat-a-Day Calendar page\u2014for \"\"March 26, 2020, you\u2019ll see Lily perhaps intrigued by a silly Buddha cat doorstop a neighbor gave me. This is one of those candid shots I happened to get. I sent it to the contest along with several other pictures that I happened to like even better than this one, but the judges evidently liked the message in this shot and it won a spot on the calendar.<\/p>\n

The other picture is also of Lily when she was a kitten playing with alphabet blocks. This photo appeared in an earlier calendar and her picture actually appeared on the back of the carton as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s seriously unprecedented times. We\u2019re all shifting gears and finding new and different ways to cope and to fill our time. That\u2019s why I\u2019m offering CATNAPPED, the first in the Klepto Cat Mystery series (Kindle version) for 99 cents for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092"}],"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=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}