{"id":58,"date":"2008-02-24T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/02\/atticus.html"},"modified":"2010-10-27T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:42:25","slug":"atticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Atticus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/R8EGuO1F7UI\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/Ib9Q_r3aiag\/s1600-h\/Atticus+055.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170421238522572098\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/R8EGuO1F7UI\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/Ib9Q_r3aiag\/s320\/Atticus+055.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/R8EGie1F7TI\/AAAAAAAAABI\/HAkqSSssO7w\/s1600-h\/Atticus+033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170421036659109170\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/R8EGie1F7TI\/AAAAAAAAABI\/HAkqSSssO7w\/s320\/Atticus+033.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/R8EEq-1F7RI\/AAAAAAAAAA4\/195N1wPMH4I\/s1600-h\/Atticus+038.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170418983664741650\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/R8EEq-1F7RI\/AAAAAAAAAA4\/195N1wPMH4I\/s320\/Atticus+038.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFigured it was time to introduce you folks to my current pride and joy (till I actually father a child; depending on my luck could be sooner rather than later. No not that kind of luck. Bad luck. Whatever. Moving on. I digress&#8230;), Atticus. I was just organizing old photographs and he&#8217;s just so damned cute that I figured why not? Now, what you gotta understand is that I wasn&#8217;t particularly a cat person. I enjoyed them, but they were too temperamental for my taste. Anyway, my housemate in college brought one home and we had a little tabby running around the house. About a month later, he had to take him to the vet and I was enlisted to come along to help him, since he had yet to acquire a cat carrier. With about an hour or so to kill, I realized that they had two kittens up for adoption; brother and sister. I asked if I could see them, figured at least it would be a time killer. The vet tech told me they had already had a taker for the grey female but the orange male was still around. I said okay or whatever. Anyway, the minute they walked through the room with him, I said &#8220;I&#8217;ll take him.&#8221; Yep,  just like that &#8211; I was surprised as everyone else. I highly recommend if you&#8217;re looking for a pet that you rescue. The animals are incredibly grateful for the care; and let me tell you, orange male cats are the best. Not only is he a beautiful cat, he&#8217;s ridiculously devoted to me, likes to play fetch and occasionally thinks I&#8217;m also a cat. Atticus (yep&#8230; <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>) is going to be three on April 5 and is as energetic and playful as ever.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figured it was time to introduce you folks to my current pride and joy (till I actually father a child; depending on my luck could be sooner rather than later. No not that kind of luck. Bad luck. Whatever. Moving on. I digress&#8230;), Atticus. I was just organizing old photographs and he&#8217;s just so damned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atticus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1668],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atticus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}