{"id":3306,"date":"2005-06-27T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:35:57","slug":"how-do-writers-with-cats-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2005\/06\/27\/how-do-writers-with-cats-write\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Writers with Cats Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.io.com\/~hmelton\/maryann\/index.cgi?I20050614090547.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/200\/I20050614090547.JPG.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;m trying hard, working on chapter 17 of my outline, visualizing the land around Angel Fire, New Mexico and doing my best to stay inside the head of Joe, but there&#8217;s this kitten perched on my foot, trying her best to undo the double knotted shoe-laces.  I&#8217;ve knocked her off too many times to count, but she keeps coming back.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my question.  How to other writers cope with kittens?  I&#8217;ve got two main options.  Make her go away &#8212; lock her up in the bathroom.  Or, go away myself &#8212; go out to the RV and work in the heat of the day.  Neither is pleasant. <\/p>\n<p>Anybody out there need a really cute kitten?  Hey, I&#8217;m serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying hard, working on chapter 17 of my outline, visualizing the land around Angel Fire, New Mexico and doing my best to stay inside the head of Joe, but there&#8217;s this kitten perched on my foot, trying her best to undo the double knotted shoe-laces. I&#8217;ve knocked her off too many times to count,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2005\/06\/27\/how-do-writers-with-cats-write\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do Writers with Cats Write?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[424,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Rk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}