{"id":12812,"date":"2024-08-14T00:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12812"},"modified":"2024-08-14T00:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:47:54","slug":"last-of-the-parliament-hill-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12812","title":{"rendered":"Last of the Parliament Hill cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in gentler times, Parliament Hill here in Ottawa offered a unique attraction: a cat sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the sanctuary is long gone. The cats were neutered and spayed many years ago, so their numbers were dwindling. And when the volunteer-supported sanctuary&#8217;s original caretaker passed away, the remaining cats were adopted and the sanctuary was abolished.<\/p>\n<p>One of those cats was all-black Coal, adopted by a gentleman named Danny Taurozzi. Coal is 16 this year, still alive and kicking, the last remaining Parliament Hill cat. Coal is also a cancer survivor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/phoenix\/player\/syndicate\/?mediaId=9.6472591\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cancer can kill cats quickly (as we sadly know all too well) so I am glad to learn that Coal is doing okay for now. I hope he has a few more years left, because when he closes his little eyes for the very last time, it will truly mark the end of an era.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12812' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in gentler times, Parliament Hill here in Ottawa offered a unique attraction: a cat sanctuary. Alas, the sanctuary is long gone. The cats were neutered and spayed many years ago, so their numbers were dwindling. And when the volunteer-supported sanctuary&#8217;s original caretaker passed away, the remaining cats were adopted and the sanctuary was abolished. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12812' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-cats","category-local-ottawa","category-22-id","category-7-id","category-44-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12815,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}