{"id":101,"date":"2007-12-03T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T00:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-11-30T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T01:09:17","slug":"ferocious-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Ferocious monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday afternoon I was skeining sock yarn (I <b>so<\/b> need an electric skeiner!!!!) and reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interweave.com\/spin\/spinoff_magazine\/\">Spin-Off<\/a> (the last issue, as recommended by Laura) (skeining is dreadfully dull, and requires little attention, so I can read while doing it. Even books with no pictures, not just magazines.) (Did I mention that I need an electric skeiner??) when suddenly everything just&#8230; stopped. <\/p>\n<p>I looked down, and the yarn was firmly clamped in Morgan&#8217;s jaws. As soon as I noticed him, Morgan began purring at full volume. You&#8217;ll notice that purring doesn&#8217;t involve opening the jaws.<\/p>\n<p>I did get the yarn away from him, and distracted him with a paper ball, but it&#8217;s a <i>good<\/i> thing that yarn gets washed before going in the dyepot.<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit:<\/b> Since this is <i>still<\/i> the top Google result for &#8220;ferocious monster&#8221; (as of November 2011), I thought a picture was in order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/cat20101225-2_lrg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/cat20101225-2.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan with toy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday afternoon I was skeining sock yarn (I so need an electric skeiner!!!!) and reading Spin-Off (the last issue, as recommended by Laura) (skeining is dreadfully dull, and requires little attention, so I can read while doing it. Even books with no pictures, not just magazines.) (Did I mention that I need an electric skeiner??) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}