{"id":391,"date":"2011-02-06T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:15:31","slug":"cats-i-have-known-baldrick-and-nursie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/cats-i-have-known-baldrick-and-nursie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats I Have Known – Baldrick and Nursie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nBaldrick and Nursie were my neighbour’s cats, named after characters in Blackadder (actually, Baldrick was originally called ‘Black-and-white-adder’, due to his coat colour, but it hardly rolls off the tongue). They overlapped with our Fluff<\/a>, and I remember Baldrick’s first encounter with her: he was still a wee kitten, and she was sleeping on what he clearly thought was his lawn. His fur and tail puffed up, and he did a bit of sideways scuttling and hissing. Fluff, about twice his size and largely unflappable, deigned to raise her head to see what the fuss was about, before ignoring him entirely. A rather confused kitten eventually sloped off, and they subsequently tolerated each other perfectly well.\n<\/p>\n

\nBaldrick grew into a sturdy and sleek cat, friendly to us hoomins, less so to the avian, murine, and occasionally feline, communities. His sister Nursie, a pretty tortoiseshell, was a much different character, shy and a bit skittish; she was in a car accident, and I think it permanently left her a bit spooked. She was a sweet affectionate cat, though, and had a litter of four kittens when young; but more of them another time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baldrick and Nursie were my neighbour’s cats, named after characters in Blackadder (actually, Baldrick was originally called ‘Black-and-white-adder’, due to his coat colour, but it hardly rolls off the tongue). They overlapped with our Fluff, and I remember Baldrick’s first encounter with her: he was still a wee kitten, and she was sleeping on what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}