{"id":708,"date":"2005-07-24T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=708"},"modified":"2005-07-24T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T16:48:28","slug":"so-long-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era here in the McLaughlin house.<\/p>\n<p>The kitties are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right, the girls have found a new home.<\/p>\n<p>The cats have been on their last life for a while now.  The random crying at 5am, the bringing of dead and live mice into the house, and all the cat hair.  But last week, we hit a new low.  Not only did they manage to bring in a live snake that hide under Kulia&#8217;s carseat, we also discovered a large racoon in our garage eating the cat food.  The racoon was the last straw.  I love the girls, I really do, but racoons are mean and I just couldn&#8217;t get the image of one attacking Leina out of my head.  So Kevin posted an ad in the paper and a very nice couple came by yesterday to take a look at the cats.  They were smitten and decided to take them home.  We told them if it didn&#8217;t work to call us back but I have a feeling they are gone for good.<\/p>\n<p>So last night, after the 3am nursing, I found myself wondering about my cats.  They were in a strange house with strange people.  They were probably firmly entrenched under the bed and wondering what was going on.  Well girls, I hope you like you new home.  I know our house is a little quieter without you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era here in the McLaughlin house. The kitties are gone. Yes, that&#8217;s right, the girls have found a new home. The cats have been on their last life for a while now. The random crying at 5am, the bringing of dead and live mice into the house, and all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}