{"id":1737,"date":"2008-03-11T20:11:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/11\/our-cats-are-going-away\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T20:11:31","slug":"our-cats-are-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/our-cats-are-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Cats are Going Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several months, we&#8217;ve been cat sitting for our friends Gil and Gilliane.    They are very good cats, and Amanda especially has bonded to them.   Well, Gil and Gilliane are returning from their extended stay overseas, and want their cats back.  There will be a certain emptiness when they are gone.But even worse, we&#8217;re gonna die of heart attacks!!!! &#8230;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Whether it&#8217;s a frisky kitten or a tubby tabby, a cat at home could cut your heart attack risk by almost a third, a new study suggests.The finding, from a 10-year study of more than 4,300 Americans, suggests that the stress relief pets provide humans is heart-healthy.<a href=\"http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/usnews\/health\/healthday\/080221\/cats-help-shield-owners-from-heart-attack.htm\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several months, we&#8217;ve been cat sitting for our friends Gil and Gilliane. They are very good cats, and Amanda especially has bonded to them. Well, Gil and Gilliane are returning from their extended stay overseas, and want their cats back. There will be a certain emptiness when they are gone.But even worse, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/our-cats-are-going-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Cats are Going Away!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[174],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-s1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}