{"id":894,"date":"2005-04-21T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/04\/21\/the-devil-inside\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T04:48:00","slug":"the-devil-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/the-devil-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"The devil inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We really weren&rsquo;t conscious of what we were getting into when we let that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/themini\">cute little stray cat<\/a> inside our house on a cold winter night last January. The Mini is an absolute nutcase. He is the first cat that I allow to go outside: there was no way I could refuse him that right. He would have bugged me to death.<\/p>\n<p>When I went out in the winter to shovel snow he was right there with me, hiding behind a pile of fresh snow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nivuniconnu\/5368673\/\">waiting to pounce<\/a> on the shovel as it passed him. Blork and I made snow balls and threw them at The Mini and he tried to catch them as they would disintegrate in his face. Whenever I go out to do some work around the house, he shows up from god knows where and jumps on every leaf I rake or every pile of dirt I move around. I spend more time pushing him away than actually working.<\/p>\n<p>He loves to freak people out. I was taking care of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blork\/9711333\/in\/photostream\/\">a couple of flowers<\/a> the other day (I wouldn&rsquo;t quite dare call it gardening) when I heard a woman scream behind me. I turned around and found The Mini in front of an old lady who was walking by. He was hiding under the low branches of a large pine tree and pounced on the lady when she passed by. As she slowly caught her breath, he rolled on the sidewalk in front of her, probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nivuniconnu\/10340489\/\">too cracked up<\/a> to stand up on his four paws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nivuniconnu\/3876429\/in\/set-245903\/\">Spiff<\/a> thinks he might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nivuniconnu\/10345183\/\">the devil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really weren&rsquo;t conscious of what we were getting into when we let that cute little stray cat inside our house on a cold winter night last January. The Mini is an absolute nutcase. He is the first cat that I allow to go outside: there was no way I could refuse him that right.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/the-devil-inside\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The devil inside<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}