{"id":5323,"date":"2021-11-16T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2021-11-16T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T11:04:03","slug":"newsday-tuesday-the-mermaid-cat-that-tried-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5323","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 The Mermaid Cat That Tried to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"emb6A2271D0\" class=\"sgt rms_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/th?id=OIF.v7R8RSW7BerlDcfWoNtLGQ&amp;w=176&amp;h=170&amp;c=8&amp;rs=1&amp;qlt=90&amp;o=6&amp;pid=3.1&amp;rm=2\" alt=\"Image result for Mermaid cat Mopac. Size: 176 x 170. Source: www.axios.com\" width=\"176\" height=\"170\" data-src-hq=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/th?id=OIF.v7R8RSW7BerlDcfWoNtLGQ&amp;w=176&amp;h=170&amp;c=8&amp;rs=1&amp;qlt=90&amp;o=6&amp;pid=3.1&amp;rm=2\" data-priority=\"2\" data-bm=\"37\" \/>Or was her leap off the Mopac Bridge in Austin, TX an accident. The poor thing evidently had been running on hot pavement for a while as her paws were burned when they recued her. Did she find herself amidst traffic and couldn\u2019t figure how to escape it? Did someone toss her out of a car? She ultimately jumped or fell or was thrown off the bridge and into the water near where a family and a few individuals were boating and paddling. YES, they managed to save the Mermaid Cat and, the happy news is, the family plans to adopt her.<\/p>\n<p>She jumped from an apparently awful situation into a beautiful life-ever-after. Sigh. I love those happy endings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/mermaid-kitty-family-helps-rescue-122050566.html\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/mermaid-kitty-family-helps-rescue-122050566.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or was her leap off the Mopac Bridge in Austin, TX an accident. The poor thing evidently had been running on hot pavement for a while as her paws were burned when they recued her. Did she find herself amidst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5323\">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":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323"}],"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=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}