{"id":10075,"date":"2004-02-13T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10075"},"modified":"2005-09-05T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T20:28:50","slug":"you-say-its-your-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/13\/you-say-its-your-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"You say it&#8217;s your birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fighting the urge to wax philosophical today as it is my birthday.  But no!  I will instead be entertaining, or fall down trying.   Warning, I&#8217;m old now (31), so I might fall down the stairs at any time.<\/p>\n<p>So the wife and I went to the vet last night for the boy&#8217;s checkup and annual inoculations and it was bad juju all around.<\/p>\n<p>Vet: Look sam, your cat has got to lose weight.<br \/>\nsam: What about the wife&#8217;s cat?  Doesn&#8217;t her cat need to lose weight?<br \/>\nVet: Actually, her cat needs to gain weight.<br \/>\nsam: Well maybe her cat shouldn&#8217;t leave her dinner bowl half full where Oedipus can get to it, hmmm?<\/p>\n<p>Then the vet showed me pictures of a cat from three different angles, overhead, side and head on.  Studying the massive paunch around the pictured cat&#8217;s midsection it was clear to me there was a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Vet: Now having seen those pictures what do you notice about Oedipus?<br \/>\nsam: The cat in the picture needs to lose weight.<br \/>\nVet: And don&#8217;t you think your cat looks just like the cat in the picture?<br \/>\nsam: Not at all. Oedipus is much better looking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fighting the urge to wax philosophical today as it is my birthday. But no! I will instead be entertaining, or fall down trying. Warning, I&#8217;m old now (31), so I might fall down the stairs at any time. So the wife and I went to the vet last night for the boy&#8217;s checkup and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}