{"id":11331,"date":"2022-09-29T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=11331"},"modified":"2022-09-29T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:08:15","slug":"still-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=11331","title":{"rendered":"Still tough.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 years ago last night I found Smokey in the forest after he had been missing for 2+ days. I cannot describe the feeling of relief, joy, heart explosion when I found him.  The day after (so today), I spent the day with him on my lap for the most part. He was *not* a lap dog except when he really needed his Momma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year since then I&#8217;ve remembered the dates, seen the FB memory pics, etc. and been happy and relieved to have him safe and sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously this year is different. And frankly I have tried to ignore FB updates and reminders and notifications. I like the Memories feature actually for reminding me daily of Angelus and Storm. But the loss of Smokey is still too raw, so it sucks right now too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indy is a complete love. A sweet, sweet boy who deserves nothing but happiness and joy. And I hope I bring that to him. He makes me smile every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am still heart broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 years ago last night I found Smokey in the forest after he had been missing for 2+ days. I cannot describe the feeling of relief, joy, heart explosion when I found him. The day after (so today), I spent the day with him on my lap for the most part. He was *not* a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}