{"id":435,"date":"2011-03-08T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:13:22","slug":"a-cat%e2%80%99s-tale-%e2%80%93-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/a-cat%e2%80%99s-tale-%e2%80%93-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cat\u2019s Tale \u2013 Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><br \/>\n<a href='\/blog\/archives\/387'>The story so far<\/a>: Binky Mackenzie has recovered from his accidental, over-zealous-grooming-induced, defenestration. But his house is about to change shape again&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nOne of my hoomins disappeared after a while, to be replaced by a taller one that liked to dance; or rather, that liked to make me dance. Initially I was not over the moon about this; but any sort of attention is better than none, and as it turns out I&#8217;m a pretty slinky mover.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe house continued it&#8217;s shape-shifting, smell-shifting behaviour, but by now I&#8217;d grown used to such changes; a lap is still a lap, whatever colour the walls. Gradually, one of my hoomins seemed to swell up, which was a bit inconvenient as her lap shrunk correspondingly. But worse was to come &#8211; evidently she burst open, and released two small, bald, mewling cats, or so I thought at the time. These creatures demanded, and received, outrageous levels of care and affection. It was enough to make a cat&#8217;s fur fall out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe pair of animals changed over time, coming to resemble little hoomins. But with stickier paws. I&#8217;m sure they loved me (I am a dapper, handsome cat, after all), but they were rather noisy, and I have a delicate disposition. I like hoomins, on the whole, but I prefer them when they are big enough (and sit still long enough) to have laps&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be concluded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story so far: Binky Mackenzie has recovered from his accidental, over-zealous-grooming-induced, defenestration. But his house is about to change shape again&#8230; One of my hoomins disappeared after a while, to be replaced by a taller one that liked to dance; or rather, that liked to make me dance. Initially I was not over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}