{"id":903,"date":"2005-04-29T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/04\/29\/theres-a-first-time-for-everything\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T04:08:00","slug":"theres-a-first-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/theres-a-first-time-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a first time for everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cute scene with my nephews tonight: As we were all watching Lemony Snicket’s, a series of unfortunate events<\/a> back at my place, The Mini<\/a> cuddled up next to Alexis (7) and started to purrrrr. « What’s that noise? », said Alexis. « Don’t you know? It’s the cat ». I put the DVD on pause while Alexis and Renaud listened to the cat with their mouths open with surprised. It was the first time that they had ever heard a cat purr. (Their mother has allergies.) They almost looked scared at first but then the smiles that lit up their faces was priceless.<\/p>\n

I can’t remember the first time I ever heard a cat purr. I grew up with cats and dogs and birds and fishes. Dad even brought a bat home one day and tried to convince mom to keep it in a cage. (He didn’t succeed.) He would have loved for one of his kids to become a vet.<\/p>\n

Later on tonight, The Mini helped me convince the kids to keep quiet and go to sleep. His methods<\/a> were very convincing. I can’t hear a sound coming from the guest bedroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cute scene with my nephews tonight: As we were all watching Lemony Snicket’s, a series of unfortunate events back at my place, The Mini cuddled up next to Alexis (7) and started to purrrrr. « What’s that noise? », said Alexis. « Don’t you know? It’s the cat ». I put the DVD on pause… Continue reading There’s a first time for everything<\/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\/903"}],"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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}