The vet will be here shortly to help usher Roscoe P. Coltrain over the rainbow bridge.<\/div>\n
I keep telling myself he had a great run. <\/p>\n
He was found 17 years ago, an abandoned feral kitten, too small to even lick milk from a bowl.<\/p>\n
He was bottle fed until he figured out the whole eating on his own thing.<\/p>\n
He has had several brushes with illness and always managed to dodge the bullet.<\/p>\n
This time there were too many bullets.<\/p>\n
I am going to miss the little bastard terribly. Going to the bathroom will never be the same.<\/p>\n
Goodbye little man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Almost exactly 8 (!) years ago I posted about giving up the cats so we could travel to Cairo. http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=26 And then 3 years ago I posted about getting Roscoe back. http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=412 Today he leaves us permanently. The vet will be here shortly to help usher Roscoe P. Coltrain over the rainbow bridge. I keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-home","category-maudlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}