{"id":8398,"date":"2008-09-06T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2010-07-21T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:29:48","slug":"hope-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8398","title":{"rendered":"Hope asks:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God, when will it rain?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"2833483876_c37f80ac1d.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/2833483876_c37f80ac1d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She also asks:  Dear God, why have you placed me in a position where I can look out into the backyard and watch other cats &#8211; FREE CATS &#8211; have sex openly in broad daylight?  Why do you torment me?  I yowl to the high heavens when I see all the sex happening right before my eyes, but still.  You keep me behind this screen.  Why is all this sex around me and yet I do not get to partake?<\/p>\n<p>I ask the same two questions that Hope asks.<\/p>\n<p>God is resolutely silent on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>Off to do laundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God, when will it rain? She also asks: Dear God, why have you placed me in a position where I can look out into the backyard and watch other cats &#8211; FREE CATS &#8211; have sex openly in broad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8398\">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\/8398"}],"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=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24075,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/24075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}