{"id":643,"date":"2011-05-08T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2011-05-08T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:10:02","slug":"feline-book-review-binky-the-space-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/feline-book-review-binky-the-space-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Feline Book Review: Binky the Space Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMy hoomins often seem to be almost as interested in &#8216;books&#8217; as me, which I have never really understood until now. In fact, I have only just worked out what a book is, now that one of my hoomins has bought <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Binky-Space-Cat-Ashley-Spires\/dp\/1554534194\">Binky the Space Cat<\/a><\/em> for me. A lady hoomin called Ashley Spires has evidently used me as inspiration for a lovely story about a black-and-white cat and his hoomins, although I appear a bit tubbier (and, it must be said, less handsome) in print than in real life.\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-645\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Binky-The-Space-Cat\/162242710470809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/binky_space_cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Binky the Space Cat\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/binky_space_cat.jpg 180w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/binky_space_cat-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Binky the Space Cat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-649\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00990-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Real Binky\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00990-1.jpg 180w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00990-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Real Binky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style='clear: both;'>\nThe fictionalised Binky is clearly drawn by a talented hoomin, with a fine appreciation of feline foibles, and a clear understanding of how much hoomins rely on us cats. I don&#8217;t know <i>what<\/i> my hoomins would do with all the cat food and milk that they have, without me around to eat it for them. If all books are as amusing as this, then I can almost forgive my hoomins for reading them instead of stroking me. Almost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hoomins often seem to be almost as interested in &#8216;books&#8217; as me, which I have never really understood until now. In fact, I have only just worked out what a book is, now that one of my hoomins has bought Binky the Space Cat for me. A lady hoomin called Ashley Spires has evidently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-feline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}