{"id":11323,"date":"2025-08-25T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=11323"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:03:16","slug":"sophie-turned-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2025\/08\/25\/sophie-turned-twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie turned twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt&#8217;s twenty years since this kitten first came into my life, here in a picture taken in 2007:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/sophie-in-basket.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"little black and white cat in basket\" class=\"aligncenter\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThese days she&#8217;s looking a bit more disheveled, but on the whole she&#8217;s still in good nick. She survived two other cats, Monty and Hector; the first the cat we got her to be a companion to, the second her &#8216;brother&#8217; who took out of the asylum at the same time. When we first got her she was Sandra&#8217;s cat, but as Sandra got ill and was stuck in hospital, she gravitated towards me instead. Ever since, especially since I started working from home during the Covid pandemic, she&#8217;s been the most needy, constantly needing to be near or on top of me cat I&#8217;ve ever known.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo years we moved from a tiny apartment in Amsterdam to a proper house with actual stairs in my hometown and I was worried she wouldn&#8217;t be able to cope, but nothing&#8217;s further from the truth. She climbs them as if she&#8217;s done so all her life, even if she doesn&#8217;t want to move too much these days anymore. As long as she can claim a spot near me, she&#8217;s happy to sleep the day away and just wake up long enough to get her food, drink or do her business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHappy birthday Sophie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s twenty years since this kitten first came into my life, here in a picture taken in 2007: These days she&#8217;s looking a bit more disheveled, but on the whole she&#8217;s still in good nick. She survived two other cats, Monty and Hector; the first the cat we got her to be a companion to, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2246,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittens","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11327,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions\/11327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}