{"id":117,"date":"2004-11-10T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T08:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valderbar.wordpress.com\/2004\/11\/10\/leopards-and-lemmings\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T08:35:35","slug":"leopards-and-lemmings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/2004\/11\/10\/leopards-and-lemmings\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopards and lemmings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a leopard chage its spots? (For the cats reading, that&#8217;s a hairless tall expression with a rhetorical answer of: no, from the womb to the the end a character is constant. )<\/p>\n<p>I think it presumes too little of the wild cat to assume not. Each cat is a menagerie of personalities and moods. A zoo of potentials. Which will prevail? Who is top in pecking order here, in another context and need, another house, would have ably dominated? I think so. I am who I am in combination with those around me. I am made and remade by each interactions and choice. <\/p>\n<p>The physical markings stay for lfe and  were formed largely randomly in the womb. But  the character is both more and less than fur-deep. There is an abiding constancy of spirit admittedly. But beyond that, there is the impact of choice, opportunity, the company you keep.  The decisions to become despondant or feisty, dependant or mellow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a leopard chage its spots? (For the cats reading, that&#8217;s a hairless tall expression with a rhetorical answer of: no, from the womb to the the end a character is constant. ) I think it presumes too little of the wild cat to assume not. Each cat is a menagerie of personalities and moods. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}