{"id":1067,"date":"2013-01-13T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:00:16","slug":"ferocious-monster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Ferocious Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferocious Monster, Octoberish 1994 &#8211; January 13, 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130113-215526.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130113-215526.jpg\" alt=\"20130113-215526.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morgan was my longest constant companion, accompanying me from North Carolina to New Mexico to Pennsylvania. He outlasted Ghost and Grendel: there before either, and after both. He was with me longer than Nick, even.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130113-215829.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130113-215829.jpg\" alt=\"20130113-215829.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But eventually the body wears out, the medicine stops working so well, it&#8217;s cruel to try to make the cat stay longer. The vet thought they could hydrate him, give him different meds, get me a month or so with my cat, or at least a few days so I could see him again after my trip.<\/p>\n<p>They were wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Nick took Morgan his beloved gingersnaps and held him. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll head home Tuesday, to an emptier house. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130113-220236.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130113-220236.jpg\" alt=\"20130113-220236.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferocious Monster, Octoberish 1994 &#8211; January 13, 2013 Morgan was my longest constant companion, accompanying me from North Carolina to New Mexico to Pennsylvania. He outlasted Ghost and Grendel: there before either, and after both. He was with me longer than Nick, even. But eventually the body wears out, the medicine stops working so well, [&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-1067","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\/1067","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=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}