{"id":774,"date":"2008-01-08T20:56:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/08\/alien-abduction\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T20:56:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T01:56:52","slug":"alien-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/08\/alien-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"alien abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I put my cat into the carrier<br \/>\nand take her to the vet<br \/>\nI am sure for her<br \/>\nit&#8217;s like being sucked up<br \/>\ninto a UFO<br \/>\nand subjected to<br \/>\nalien experiments.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks a language<br \/>\nshe can&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nperforms hideous probings<br \/>\nand extracts fluids<br \/>\nfor no known reason<br \/>\nthen leaves her shaking<br \/>\nand terrified<br \/>\nback in her carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody will believe her<br \/>\ntale of woe:<br \/>\neveryone pats her<br \/>\non the head and says,<br \/>\n&#8220;I wonder<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s really wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I put my cat into the carrier and take her to the vet I am sure for her it&#8217;s like being sucked up into a UFO and subjected to alien experiments. He speaks a language she can&#8217;t understand performs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/08\/alien-abduction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[995,256,255],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cats","tag-pets","tag-veterinarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}