{"id":3574,"date":"2013-06-15T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2013-06-16T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T17:44:45","slug":"the-purrfect-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"The purrfect chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-chair.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Bella\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Addiction_excerpt.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/WaterVoyagepg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>No ifs or ands. Just butts.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some people have lap cats.<br \/>\nI have a butt cat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-chair3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Bella\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kinky as it may sound, it&#8217;s actually quite sweet: each day as I habitually sit up straight toward the front edge of my padded studio chair, Bella eventually jumps on and wedges herself tightly between my back, and the back of the chair.<br \/>\nSince I sit a lot, Bella and I spend a good amount of time butt-to-butt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-chair1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Bella\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She is a sizable kitty: 14 ultra-soft pounds.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s warm.<br \/>\nShe purrs.<br \/>\nWith gusto.<br \/>\nThink about this for a moment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-chair4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Bella\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I now am the happy owner a free version of one of those very expensive, rather large, soft, heated, vibrating lumbar-support massage chairs that you see in the Brookstone or Hammacher Schlemmer catalogs.<\/p>\n<p>Purrrrrrr.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-chair2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Bella\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music No ifs or ands. Just butts. Tweet Some people have lap cats. I have a butt cat. Kinky as it may sound, it&#8217;s actually quite sweet: each day as I habitually sit up straight toward the front edge of my padded studio chair, Bella eventually jumps on and wedges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}