{"id":4022,"date":"2011-12-25T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2014-03-22T06:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T10:29:27","slug":"a-christmas-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best Yule present my wife and I are getting this year is that our beloved cat Sugar is not dying.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since her <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3708\">medical crisis in September<\/a> that hasn&#8217;t been anything we could take for granted.  She bounced back <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3773\">amazingly<\/a> afterwards, but the vet&#8217;s sober best guess at the time was that she&#8217;d be lucky to live another six months.<\/p>\n<p>That was a little under three months ago. But she seems extremely healthy &#8211; lively, sociable, inquisitive, eyes bright, fur glossy and tail held high.  One of the blog&#8217;s regulars was visiting this weekend and remarked that Sugar didn&#8217;t even seem elderly.<\/p>\n<p>The cat in question materialized under my desk a few moments ago to nuzzle my foot and meow companionably at me. Now, after a nice ear-scratching,  she&#8217;s padding over to Cathy&#8217;s office, probably to do likewise. She&#8217;s happy.  She&#8217;s <em>good<\/em> at happy.  And, it would seem, at being indestructible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;ll see.  We&#8217;re supposed to take Sugar back for another sonogram soon. I&#8217;m worried about those apparent hepatic cysts that showed up on the last one; they could do her in even if the nephritis stays beaten.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever may be wrong with Sugar, she&#8217;s clearly not in pain or weakened.  She&#8217;ll be with us for a while yet, doing what she does best &#8211; purring at her humans, guarding them from the insidious <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=867\">bathroom demon<\/a>, curling up next to us at night to sweeten our dreams, making us proud every time she welcomes a houseguest to our home.<\/p>\n<p>The best Christmas wish I can think of for all of you out there is this: may you have a blessing in your life as lovely as our cat &#8211; and the wisdom not to take it for granted while it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Yule present my wife and I are getting this year is that our beloved cat Sugar is not dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-sugar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}