{"id":1920,"date":"2011-02-01T02:33:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2011-02-01T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:34:14","slug":"blue-eyes-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Blue eyes no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1904\">I took a stray cat<\/a> to the Humane Society. I thought it was the right thing to do; we already have five of them, no friend of ours wanted a cat, and this stray was obviously not going to do well outdoors (when we first saw him, he was eating some scraps off the pavement in the middle of a street frequented by city buses.) He was also young, healthy, and friendly, so we had every hope that he would be adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Our hopes were in vain. Today, I found out that he was put down after contracting a viral respiratory infection and some secondary bacterial infection that did not respond to antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>All we have now is this last picture, courtesy of the Humane Society:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/InShelter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1921\" title=\"InShelter\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/InShelter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/InShelter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/InShelter-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s the end of one little life. Wasn&#8217;t worth much, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what to do next time. Would he have had a better chance outside in -30 Centigrade weather?<\/p>\n<p>Damn.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1920' 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>Two weeks ago, I took a stray cat to the Humane Society. I thought it was the right thing to do; we already have five of them, no friend of ours wanted a cat, and this stray was obviously not going to do well outdoors (when we first saw him, he was eating some scraps <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1920' 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":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-personal","category-7-id","category-35-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\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}