{"id":111,"date":"2008-08-01T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/overweight-cat-contest-ophelias-a-loser\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:29:28","slug":"overweight-cat-contest-ophelias-a-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/overweight-cat-contest-ophelias-a-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"Overweight cat contest? Ophelia&#8217;s a loser."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief. No sooner did we add a 17-lb. kitty to our household than we heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/fatcat\" title=\"fat cat in New Jersey\">a real heavyweight<\/a>: a 44-lb. cat in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s much more than what I weigh. And I am a dog.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/grayfatcat.gif\" alt=\"fat cat\" align=\"right\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re ignoring that story,&#8221; my mom said. &#8220;Ophelia is still on a diet. If she&#8217;ll ever leave her laundry room hideout, we&#8217;ll start her kitty aerobics program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Ophelia wants to hide. My mom&#8217;s a terror when she gets fixated on an idea.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, she said, the New Jersey cat, &#8220;Princess Chunk,&#8221; got all kinds of publicity.  Chunk sat in Diane Sawyer&#8217;s lap, totally calm. (Diane wore a white skirt that won&#8217;t show Chunk&#8217;s white hair. Chris Cuomo, wearing a dark suit, edged away).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine what all this publicity could do for my copywriting business,&#8221; Cathy said.<\/p>\n<p>Not much.<\/p>\n<p>Get real, mom. Your cats will always be liabilities. I&#8217;m the asset around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief. No sooner did we add a 17-lb. kitty to our household than we heard about a real heavyweight: a 44-lb. cat in New Jersey. That&#8217;s much more than what I weigh. And I am a dog. &#8220;We&#8217;re ignoring that story,&#8221; my mom said. &#8220;Ophelia is still on a diet. If she&#8217;ll ever leave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/overweight-cat-contest-ophelias-a-loser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overweight cat contest? Ophelia&#8217;s a loser.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[161,101,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}