{"id":8253,"date":"2008-07-22T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:02:53","slug":"things-i-have-learned-about-hope-in-our-2-full-days-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8253","title":{"rendered":"Things I Have Learned About Hope In Our 2 Full Days Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; She thinks lying in the middle of the floor, all stretched out, is the best thing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; She also enjoys curling up in the dirt of my huge potted plant.  I have scolded her but she stares at me, unmoved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Pens are awesome and must be fought to the death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The crisper in the refrigerator is a magical world that one can only glimpse at brief brief intervals, but oh &#8230; if she could only get INTO the crisper, all of the secrets of the universe would suddenly be revealed to her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; She enjoys licking my toes when I brush my teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; She follows me from room to room.  &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;re hanging out in here now!   Cool!  Oh.  She&#8217;s going in THAT room.  Then I must go in there too!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Watching her stretch is to be a witness to a moment of perfect contentment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sitting on the windowsill staring out at the strutting robins and occasional stray cats in my backyard is part agony part joy.  Occasionlly she puts her paws up on the window pane, staring out at the backyard, as though it is that scene when Billy&#8217;s girlfriend comes to visit him in the Turkish prison in <i>Midnight Express<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; I stand washing the dishes and she snakes herself in and out and around my ankles, purring so loudly that I am almost embarrassed for her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; She&#8217;s happy when I come home.  Then she gets over it and goes back to sleep, smack dab in the middle of my floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; She thinks lying in the middle of the floor, all stretched out, is the best thing in the world. &#8212; She also enjoys curling up in the dirt of my huge potted plant. I have scolded her but she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/8253"}],"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=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23880,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions\/23880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}