{"id":8,"date":"2004-07-25T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T08:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valderbar.wordpress.com\/2004\/07\/25\/harried-days\/"},"modified":"2004-07-25T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2004-07-25T08:43:51","slug":"harried-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/2004\/07\/25\/harried-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Harried Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Valdebar and I am a compulsive licker.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI groom myself as any decent fit feline does and my roommate too because of her overeating, she can&#8217;t reach her own behind,or hips for that matter. This is reasonable, socially acceptable. Although it does have as a result that I vomit hairballs far more than the average cat. I can live with that if my tall hairless study group can tolerate it. But of late I&#8217;ve found this self-comforting method seems to have grown so that I feel a need to groom not just myself but most anything presented near my nose. Leg joints, of tall hairless I will call by function, Sandbox maintenance worker, Sandy for short, and food and water receptical crew, who I&#8217;ll call Wat for short. So Wat and Sandy are now becoming an extension of my grooming regimen.Sometimes I find myself watching them as they sleep and fight off the urge to groom them. (They do smell so. It must be the horrid diet!) Sometimes I can&#8217;t stop myself and I lick a toe or nose. Sometimes I find myself licking a covering that they have worn, or bedding. I am Valdbar and I admit I have a problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Valdebar and I am a compulsive licker.&nbsp; I groom myself as any decent fit feline does and my roommate too because of her overeating, she can&#8217;t reach her own behind,or hips for that matter. This is reasonable, socially acceptable. Although it does have as a result that I vomit hairballs far more [&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-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}