{"id":5921,"date":"2013-03-07T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:21:14","slug":"clown-and-cuddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2013\/03\/07\/clown-and-cuddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Clown and Cuddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2013\/03\/07\/clown-and-cuddles\/2013-03-07-14-24-43\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5922\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5922\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2013\/03\/07\/clown-and-cuddles\/2013-03-07-14-24-43\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad 2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1362666283&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.03&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00164473684211&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Clown and Cuddles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43.jpg?fit=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5922\" alt=\"Clown and Cuddles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43-500x375.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-07-14.24.43.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing Clown (above) and Cuddles (below) are relatives.\u00a0 Clown was born on my friend&#8217;s property, to a young female that had shown up out of nowhere.\u00a0 While waiting for the young (and very sweet) cat&#8217;s first heat to get her spayed, my friend realized that while she had missed the first heat, a tom obviously hadn&#8217;t.\u00a0 (Clown&#8217;s mother is now a very pampered mouser and barn cat east of here.)\u00a0 Cuddles showed up within the past year.\u00a0 He was a very aggressive tom, so my friend trapped him, had him vaccinated, then sent him off to the the low-priced clinic for &#8220;snip-snip.&#8221;\u00a0 Cuddles was either handled as a kitten, or gives the lie to the idea that you can&#8217;t domesticate a feral cat, because he pretty much lives up to his name these days. It&#8217;s hard to walk out to the barn without him throwing himself at your feet, soliciting attention. Cuddles lives outside, though he is trying desperately to get inside, while Clown is an inside-outside cat. Clown has apparently decided he wants to be friends.\u00a0 Time will tell what Cuddles thinks. (Taken with my iPad.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re guessing Clown (above) and Cuddles (below) are relatives.\u00a0 Clown was born on my friend&#8217;s property, to a young female that had shown up out of nowhere.\u00a0 While waiting for the young (and very sweet) cat&#8217;s first heat to get her spayed, my friend realized that while she had missed the first heat, a tom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2013\/03\/07\/clown-and-cuddles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clown and Cuddles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,17,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-colorado","category-ipad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-1xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}