{"id":4516,"date":"2013-03-12T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2021-11-07T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T20:08:11","slug":"and-i-cant-remember-the-sound-that-you-made-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/03\/12\/and-i-cant-remember-the-sound-that-you-made-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"And I can&#8217;t remember the sound that you made for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/gnmcw6kJ2HQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/gnmcw6kJ2HQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nIn a Metafilter thread about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/125804\/I-would-like-to-hold-Meeno-one-last-time-please\">losing cats and other pets<\/a>, somebody linked to the above Weakerthans song about the death of a cat, as sung from the cat&#8217;s perspective. Hence &#8220;and I can&#8217;t remember the sound  that you made for me&#8221; as she no longer recalls the name her owner called her. It goes to the heart of what makes dealing with the death of a loved pet so different from dealing with losing people. Pets can&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s happening to them, not like humans can and it feels more like you are abandoning them, than that they&#8217;re leaving you.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s this dream I have occasionally, where Sandra turns up still alive and I accept in the dream, though at the same time in the dream I still know she died, but something happened that had made it all a misunderstanding, she was alive all that time, I just had not been seeing here. That&#8217;s that same feeling of abandonment, of having let her down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Metafilter thread about losing cats and other pets, somebody linked to the above Weakerthans song about the death of a cat, as sung from the cat&#8217;s perspective. Hence &#8220;and I can&#8217;t remember the sound that you made for me&#8221; as she no longer recalls the name her owner called her. It goes 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":[434,27,1468],"tags":[2492],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloody-cats","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","category-sandra","tag-sandra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9433,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}