{"id":12777,"date":"2009-03-03T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/my-cat-my-companion\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T18:24:56","slug":"my-cat-my-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/my-cat-my-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"My Cat, My Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0112791cc62f28a4-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0327\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0112791cc62f28a4 image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0112791cc62f28a4-800wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" title=\"IMG_0327\" \/><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">One can see the Latin <em>panis<\/em>, bread, lurking within &#39;companion.&#39; A companion, then, is one with whom one breaks bread or shares a meal. In this root sense, my cat Caissa is undeniably my companion. For after she has enjoyed her Fancy Feast repast, she is by my side eyeing my linguine in clam sauce or sauteed scallops. Gastronomically at least, nothing is too good for her. I acquiesce in her demands. But that is the extent of my humanization of her. She has acquired the human vices of gluttony and sloth but none of the human virtues.<\/font> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can see the Latin panis, bread, lurking within &#39;companion.&#39; A companion, then, is one with whom one breaks bread or shares a meal. In this root sense, my cat Caissa is undeniably my companion. For after she has enjoyed her Fancy Feast repast, she is by my side eyeing my linguine in clam sauce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/my-cat-my-companion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Cat, My Companion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}