{"id":417,"date":"2009-09-19T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=417"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:57:06","slug":"life-and-kittens-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Life, and kittens, happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we lost Zoe, I felt too much battered by life to consider getting another cat.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I did say, however, that while I wouldn&#8217;t go looking for a cat, if a cat found me it&#8217;d be a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently Someone out there who looks after tiny kittens was listening.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night, my son and his co-workers rescued a very tiny, terrified kitten from under a car.\u00c2\u00a0 He knew who to call.\u00c2\u00a0 I certanly wasn&#8217;t prepared to take on the care of a kitten this small, but I didn&#8217;t want her to go to the shelter, either.\u00c2\u00a0 So, home she came with us.<\/p>\n<p>We had her checked by the vet yesterday and she&#8217;s fine, and about six weeks old (older than I had guessed).\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s had her worm treatment and she needs a bath, which I&#8217;ll take care of as soon as I get some kitten friendly flea shampoo.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve named her Jenny Linsky, after the feline heroine of a series of books I loved as\u00c2\u00a0 a child.<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_418\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 220px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-418\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0px 4px;\" title=\"chair1\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chair1-300x225.gif\" alt=\"chair1\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chair1-300x225.gif 300w, http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chair1.gif 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590170474\/ref=s9_simz_gw_s2_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=05ZCEWNT0STR3G7W2FMR&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=470938631&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\">Here<\/a> is the fictional Jenny Linsky, and here is the real one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we lost Zoe, I felt too much battered by life to consider getting another cat.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I did say, however, that while I wouldn&#8217;t go looking for a cat, if a cat found me it&#8217;d be a different story. Well, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=417\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60,54,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}