{"id":4675,"date":"2011-01-10T02:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2011-01-10T02:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:42:31","slug":"evolution-of-a-man-cat-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/yes-im-posting-about-my-damn-cats-again\/evolution-of-a-man-cat-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of a man-cat relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Jack and the manfriend had <a href=\"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/yes-im-posting-about-my-damn-cats-again\/at-war\/\">a tense relationship<\/a>. They seemed to be developing a friendship until one night that Jack did not take kindly to something the manfriend said, and dispensed with a hiss and a face smack. After that, Ray did not care to have much contact with either kitty. <\/p>\n<p>For a while. <\/p>\n<p>Seems like during the winter break, while I have been slaving away over a hot computer monitor at work, Ray has become fast friends with the kitties, especially Jack. Now Jack gets more loving than I do. I can nuzzle and purr and Ray will reach past me to retrieve a feline to pet. It&#8217;s gross. Just now, over on the couch, he said, &#8220;Go back to sleep, my love,&#8221; to Jack. Sally came around and he exclaimed, &#8220;Oh no, two kitties! I&#8217;m not going to be able to contain myself!&#8221; And now he is hitting on Miss Kitty like tomorrow the Mayan aliens are coming to make good on their crazed end-of-the-world promises.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, despite my raging jealousy, I&#8217;m glad to see the three of them getting along. The house is much more at peace when he&#8217;s chasing them around for hugs instead of chasing them around to terrorize them.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell how things have shifted by considering the evolution of Ray&#8217;s nicknames for Jack over the months:<\/p>\n<p>The Fat One<br \/>\nThe Orange One<br \/>\nOrange Kitty<br \/>\nMr. Fatty<br \/>\nMr. Kitty<br \/>\nMr. Kits<br \/>\nMr. Cutie<br \/>\nMr. QT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Jack and the manfriend had a tense relationship. They seemed to be developing a friendship until one night that Jack did not take kindly to something the manfriend said, and dispensed with a hiss and a face smack. After that, Ray did not care to have much contact with either kitty. For a while. Seems like during the winter break, while I have been slaving away over a hot computer monitor&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[206,1477],"tags":[2241,2203,1468,2202],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yes-im-posting-about-my-damn-cats-again","category-the-manfriend","tag-cats","tag-jack","tag-manfriend","tag-sally"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}