{"id":7887,"date":"2018-03-01T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2018-02-27T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:20:22","slug":"cats-before-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/cats-before-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats before the internet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/cats-before-the-internet\/kittenbonnet\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet.png\" data-orig-size=\"393,556\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kittenbonnet\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet-283x400.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet.png\" class=\"wp-image-7888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet.png 393w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet-106x150.png 106w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet-283x400.png 283w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenbonnet-102x144.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>&nbsp; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7889\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/cats-before-the-internet\/kittenfairy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy.png\" data-orig-size=\"385,552\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kittenfairy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy-279x400.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy.png\" class=\"wp-image-7889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy.png 385w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy-105x150.png 105w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy-279x400.png 279w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kittenfairy-100x144.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThe Public Domain Review has shared an excellent little book in the post: <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collections\/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age\/\">Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) \u2014 Cats and Captions before the Internet Age<\/a>.  If the internet isn&#8217;t giving you enough kittens then look no further!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Public Domain Review has shared an excellent little book in the post: Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) \u2014 Cats and Captions before the Internet Age. If the internet isn&#8217;t giving you enough kittens then look no further!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8770,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/introducing-kittens\/","url_meta":{"origin":7887,"position":0},"title":"Introducing kittens","author":"leems","date":"December 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"GorgonSpasmo I was not very into sharing when my beloved Crisco and Sparkles passed on last year. 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