{"id":26,"date":"2004-08-18T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valderbar.wordpress.com\/2004\/08\/18\/barking-up-the-family-tree\/"},"modified":"2004-08-18T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T09:10:11","slug":"barking-up-the-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/2004\/08\/18\/barking-up-the-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Barking up the Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many feral individuals out there on diurnal soujourns.<\/p>\n<p>Some with ears that are on short tubes, some long-lobed, some with a lobe directly angled to the head, otehrs with a flap. Some of the species have hair coming out of the canal. The cartiledge is as a flat panel, others subdivided into hollows. Some are black, some pink, some blue and shaved but none I have seen have been calico. Odd. Some species get all the breaks I guess. <\/p>\n<p>They and their friends vary to an amusing degree in scale. Although we do have cousins who are much larger than I am, the lions of the Serengeti and Ocelot of the southern americas, my kind is more lunch than lunch date with these. They do not have the advantage of multi-dimensional living as we do. <\/p>\n<p>So far as canines, they are a bit of a blank. Their code, for it is too primitive to be called a full-fledged language, had eleuded our best code-breakers. We get the general impressions of course. Who could miss the meaning of&#8221;loooooonely, got a feeeeling called the blluuuuues&#8221; utterance or &#8220;yo I&#8217;m king.&#8221; the more subtle aspects are something of a Rosetta Stone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many feral individuals out there on diurnal soujourns. Some with ears that are on short tubes, some long-lobed, some with a lobe directly angled to the head, otehrs with a flap. Some of the species have hair coming out of the canal. The cartiledge is as a flat panel, others subdivided into [&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-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}