{"id":9063,"date":"2015-04-25T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=9063"},"modified":"2015-04-25T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:17:57","slug":"cats-in-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=9063","title":{"rendered":"Cats in our lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghlaghghee, 2003 \u2013\u00a02015<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ghlaghghee died in January of this year. I had stopped following John Scalzi’s blog Whatever<\/a>\u00a0closely\u00a0some time ago so I missed the entry. For some reason or another it was mentioned on twitter the other day and I finally read it. It’s a wonderful thing to have a person whose profession is words to describe something. I wished I could have conjured\u00a0half the emotion revealed half the truths Mr. Scalzi does when Samantha died last fall<\/a>. The bond with a cat is often so subtle that it is impossible to describe and though it leaves a disproportionate\u00a0\u00a0scar when it’s finally sundered, you rarely \u00a0give much thought what that bond actually is.<\/p>\n

John’s entry does this well and it speaks, for the most part, for me as well. Thank-you John.<\/p>\n

Remembering is a source of joy<\/h3>\n

One of the things we too often discount in this ‘modern’ age\u00a0is that by remembering and retelling stories we keep things alive in our hearts and heal our spirits. The disconnected glee that John had at my, among others, expense as I would try to pronounce Ghlaghghee’s name now, in turn, makes me smile. For those who are disinclined to read the blog post, apparently \u00a0John’s 4-year-old daughter wanted to name the new kitten Fluffy despite an official ban on such ‘cutesey’ names. The daughter won; but John, taking a page from Bernard-Shaw’s book<\/a>, decided to spell Fluffy with assorted g’s and h’s to the eternal consternation of all readers and speakers. (Gh=f) (l=l) (agh=u) (gh=f) (ee=y)<\/p>\n

Apparently\u00a0Ghlaghghee was also the first internet ‘bacon-cat’ and his fame even exceeded the best-selling author’s for a period.<\/p>\n

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Samantha was never so famous. Named simply Samantha by our then\u00a05-year-old after a classmate, she eventually became formally know as Samantha T(he) Cat. But she did perfect the ‘clamber-up-the-bathrobe-in-the-morning’ and modeled for several books and magazines\u2014although rarely when she was actually supposed to be modeling.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, it’s good to remember and it’s good to smile and I hope when my time comes everyone pauses to laugh at me, laugh with me or simply just laugh.<\/p>\n

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Ghlaghghee, 2003 \u2013\u00a02015 Ghlaghghee died in January of this year. I had stopped following John Scalzi’s blog Whatever\u00a0closely\u00a0some time ago so I missed the entry. For some reason or another it was mentioned on twitter the other day and I finally read it. It’s a wonderful thing to have a person whose profession is words […]<\/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},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}