{"id":1152,"date":"2010-02-18T20:41:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:38:09","slug":"magics-resting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/02\/magics-resting\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Resting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Magic-resting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1151\" title=\"Magic-resting\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Magic-resting-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"cat resting\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Magic-resting-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Magic-resting.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s face it: nobody knows how to rest like cats.  They sleep something on the order of 16 hours per day.  <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/How_many_hours_per_day_does_a_cat_sleep\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s a fact.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my kitty, Magic.  Magic is, in fact, quite magical.  He&#8217;s now pretty old &#8212; he&#8217;ll be 18 in a few months.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatorcat.com\/cats\/cat-years.phtml\" target= \"_blank\">cat years calculator<\/a>,  that&#8217;s something like  89 in people years.  He&#8217;s not as beautiful as he was in his prime, but he&#8217;s just at lovable, a real sweetheart.  Magic has both claws and sharp teeth, but he almost never uses them.  The only time he ever scratched me was when I was trying to shove some medicine down his throat.  And that&#8217;s all in the past; he doesn&#8217;t <em>like<\/em> meds, but he takes them daily without fuss or argument &#8212; vitamin B, PB8, and digestive enzymes.  And that&#8217;s on a good day.<\/p>\n<p>Magic just dodged another bullet, one of many in his lifetime.  There is no doubt in my mind he was just a few days from death.  He was sleeping constantly, wasn&#8217;t eating, wasn&#8217;t purring, was lying in the ashes and bark next to the woodstove in the basement and didn&#8217;t care that he was filthy.  But he&#8217;s now infinitely better.  He&#8217;s eating, drinking, and interacting.  He&#8217;s not 100%, but he&#8217;s back on his way to old-man wellness.  Here he&#8217;s not really sleeping, just resting, gathering his energies.  He&#8217;ll be back up soon, wanting another snack.  And I&#8217;ll be happy to give it to him.  Along with all the extra meds he&#8217;s now taking.<\/p>\n<p>This picture is in response to Carmi&#8217;s thematic photo of the week &#8211; topic:  <a href=\"http:\/\/writteninc.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/thematic-photographic-88-at-rest.html\" target=\"_blank\">at rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn: tell me about your older pet.  Or join in Carmi&#8217;s weekly game.  Or just send your positive energy to Magic.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Let&#8217;s face it: nobody knows how to rest like cats. They sleep something on the order of 16 hours per day. It&#8217;s a fact.<\/p>\n<p>This is my kitty, Magic. Magic is, in fact, quite magical. He&#8217;s now pretty old &#8212; he&#8217;ll be 18 in a few months. According to the cat years calculator, that&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[532],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-pets","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}