{"id":468,"date":"2009-04-09T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2009-04-09T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:30:37","slug":"cat-takes-over-the-sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/cat-takes-over-the-sofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat takes over the sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Creampuff has invaded my crate. And now look who&#8217;s\u00a0 perched on the edge of the sofa: Ophelia, our neweset housemate, posing like a model. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"cat on the sofa\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/apr5opheliaposing.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\"  hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t she beautiful?&#8221; my mom exclaims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t she useless?&#8221; I reply back.<\/p>\n<p>But Cathy ignores me. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s so healthy! After her trauma of moving and her battle with liver disease&#8230;I&#8217;m so proud of her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earth to mom. Ophelia moved in here about 8 months ago. Lots of time to recover from her trauma. And as for liver disease, it&#8217;s more about force feeding and milk thistle than Ophelia&#8217;s own character.<\/p>\n<p>But life could be worse. Mom needs her illusions.\u00a0 Ophelia&#8217;s pretty mellow, for a cat. As long as nobody eats my food, I&#8217;m happy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Creampuff has invaded my crate. And now look who&#8217;s\u00a0 perched on the edge of the sofa: Ophelia, our neweset housemate, posing like a model. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t she beautiful?&#8221; my mom exclaims. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t she useless?&#8221; I reply back. But Cathy ignores me. &#8220;She&#8217;s so healthy! After her trauma of moving and her battle with liver disease&#8230;I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/cat-takes-over-the-sofa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cat takes over the sofa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}