{"id":909,"date":"2011-01-16T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2011-01-17T07:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:09:26","slug":"alexander-may-be-great-but-hes-small-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/909","title":{"rendered":"Alexander may be great, but he&#8217;s small at the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With our oldest cat, Mocha, <a href=\"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/897\">dying on Monday<\/a>, there was much talk about getting a new cat (mostly from my son, Brian). Previously, we had said that there would be no new pets and that we would consider a cat at some point in the future. After re-evaluating that decision, I realized that the kids never really had that &#8220;new pet&#8221; experience and so didn&#8217;t resist the &#8220;investigation&#8221; (surfing rescue websites, reading about different breeds, etc.) that they began.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, a trip to the local rescue &#8220;just to look&#8221; resulted in a new member being added to the family. May I please introduce Alexander the Great (Alex, for short):<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-909 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1066.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1066.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1081.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1081.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1086.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1086.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1087.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1087.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to get him aclimated as easily as possible. He&#8217;s been spending almost all of his time in my daughter&#8217;s room but has been exposed to the other cat (Bella) and the dog (Patrick). Patrick is the problem, though. He&#8217;s big (~100 lbs) with his head roughly the size of Alex himself and at only 8 weeks, Alex isn&#8217;t sure how to handle that. The current set-up is Patrick kept downstairs and Alex having free reign though, so far, only staying upstairs. There shouldn&#8217;t be a problem, but may take some time for Alex realize that he won&#8217;t be a chew toy. There&#8217;s actually no risk of that but he doesn&#8217;t know that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our oldest cat, Mocha, dying on Monday, there was much talk about getting a new cat (mostly from my son, Brian). Previously, we had said that there would be no new pets and that we would consider a cat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/909\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-eF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}