{"id":8246,"date":"2008-07-20T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2020-08-31T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:50:49","slug":"after-many-years-of-living-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8246","title":{"rendered":"I Now Have a Roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her name is Hope.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a little bit needy, so far.   Frankly, she&#8217;s all over me.  It&#8217;s a bit much.  I also caught her following me from room to room at one point.<\/p>\n<p>But I think it&#8217;ll work out just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Hope!<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2685801635_b913cac667_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-161129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2685801635_b913cac667_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2685801635_b913cac667_c-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2685801635_b913cac667_c-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2685801635_b913cac667_c-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2685801635_b913cac667_c-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She came with the name.  I got her at a shelter.  If it had been a name like &#8220;Barbie&#8221; or something like that, I would have changed it.  Maybe to Stockwell, or Calavicci or something more appropriate to my lifestyle.  But I felt it would be very bad karma to change the name &#8220;Hope&#8221; to something else.  So Hope it is.<\/p>\n<p>She is now lying on my windowsill staring out at the green hot world outside and her purr fills the room.<\/p>\n<p>She is only a year old.<\/p>\n<p>I love her so much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her name is Hope. She&#8217;s a little bit needy, so far. Frankly, she&#8217;s all over me. It&#8217;s a bit much. I also caught her following me from room to room at one point. But I think it&#8217;ll work out just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161131,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions\/161131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}