{"id":12595,"date":"2010-12-19T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2010-12-19T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:29:20","slug":"electa-now-fifty-percent-heavier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/19\/electa-now-fifty-percent-heavier\/","title":{"rendered":"Electa: now fifty percent heavier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in August, the very fuzzy gray and black Maine Coon named Electra lost a perilous amount of weight and nearly died. Her ailment manifested quite suddenly and without warning. One day she was fine, the next she could barely stand. The evil culprit: Hyperthyroidism.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately the condition&#8211;which is quite common among her breed, unfortunately&#8211;often responds to treatment. Two Tapazole pills a day, keeps the hyperthyroidism in check. Which really means smelly blobs of Whiskas cat food wrapped around pill bits; otherwise Electra refuses the medication. And since the Cat Army won&#8217;t stand for one member of the ranks receiving special treatment, they all get a bit of Whiskas. Clever Cat Army.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday she visited the vet and according to their records, she&#8217;s fifty percent heavier than in August. Thank you, Whiskas blobs. And Tapezole.<\/p>\n<p>I also feel fifty percent heavier since August, but I&#8217;m not nearly as cute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/site-images\/catarmy\/electra-renewed.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in August, the very fuzzy gray and black Maine Coon named Electra lost a perilous amount of weight and nearly died. Her ailment manifested quite suddenly and without warning. One day she was fine, the next she could barely stand. The evil culprit: Hyperthyroidism. Fortunately the condition&#8211;which is quite common among her breed, unfortunately&#8211;often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595","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=12595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12599,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}