{"id":3394,"date":"2011-03-13T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2011-03-12T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T20:00:13","slug":"the-eyes-of-a-cat-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes of a Cat, Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend&#8217;s cat died yesterday. She was a good cat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Della.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3395\" title=\"DCF 1.0\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Della-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Della-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Della.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In her honor, I offer my only Poirot quote to reference cats.<\/p>\n<p>After someone unsuccessfully attempts to kill Poirot and Hastings (his friend), he says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now  be crushed out of existence&#8212;a terrible calamity for the world. And  you, too, <em>mon ami<\/em>&#8212;though that would not be such a national catastrophe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <em>The Big Four<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The death of one cat is not a calamity for the world, but it is for her owner. My heart goes out to my friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend&#8217;s cat died yesterday. She was a good cat. In her honor, I offer my only Poirot quote to reference cats. After someone unsuccessfully attempts to kill Poirot and Hastings (his friend), he says, Yes, but for my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312],"tags":[20,124,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}