{"id":1693,"date":"2012-04-09T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:38:27","slug":"welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/04\/09\/welcome-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1697 alignleft\" title=\"Welcome Home\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/home_again_400.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Home\" width=\"400\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/home_again_400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/home_again_400-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Anyone who knows cats probably saw this doodle coming a mile down the pike\u2014i.e., Charlotte\u2019s complete indifference to\u00a0my return last night, after a week away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019m just kidding though (sort of). The whole \u201ccold shoulder clich\u00e9\u201d made for a better breakfast table doodle for Dad this morning, than if I\u2019d drawn Charlotte running to the door purring, no?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The truth is somewhere in between: Charlotte did in fact get off her brocade throne (briefly) to say hello when I got in (to sniff my pockets for treats), before going back to her Easter basket booty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just for fun, here are a couple of snapshots of the real Charlotte on said throne that Dad took with his iPhone for me while I was away. As one of the household mice once observed, she kinda looks like an angel when she\u2019s sleeping\u2014don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1700\" title=\"Sleeping Angel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/charlotte-bench-6402.jpg\" alt=\"Sleeping Angel\" width=\"640\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/charlotte-bench-6402.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/charlotte-bench-6402-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meanwhile, Blackie and Max seemed very glad to see me, and of course everyone was <em>thrilled<\/em> to have Little Mouse back in the bosom of the family, where she belongs. And we were both thrilled to <em>be<\/em> home. We had a wonderful time visiting Molly and Ranger in Wisconsin, but it\u2019s true what they say: Home is where the cat is\u2014or in this case, <em>cats<\/em>.\u00a0(Or something like that.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope you all had an excellent Easter Monday today\u2014a holiday for many of us. Wishing everyone sweet dreams tonight and happy landings back at work tomorrow morning. G\u2019night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows cats probably saw this doodle coming a mile down the pike\u2014i.e., Charlotte\u2019s complete indifference to\u00a0my return last night, after a week away. I\u2019m just kidding though (sort of). The whole \u201ccold shoulder clich\u00e9\u201d made for a better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/04\/09\/welcome-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[259,12,13,7,232,260,233],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-sweet-home","tag-angel","tag-blackie-2","tag-cats","tag-charlotte-2","tag-little-mouse","tag-welcome-home","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}