{"id":30690,"date":"2023-01-15T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30690"},"modified":"2023-01-15T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T13:03:01","slug":"now-its-time-for-our-short-distance-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/15\/now-its-time-for-our-short-distance-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Now It&#8217;s Time For Our Short Distance Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A listener in Missouri writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brian, we recently adopted two little boy kittens, almost twin brothers, who are the cutest things.  We decided not to declaw them, and they&#8217;re growing up nicely, but they have one habit I&#8217;m not fond of:  They sleep all day, curled up in a chair next to each other, but when their internal clocks strike midnight, they&#8217;re very playful, pouncing on each other in the bed, bringing their favorite cat toys into the bed and batting them around, and pouncing on any part of me that I move under the blankets.  I am getting up way too early to hide from them, or at least to put myself in a more defensible position for their rambunctiousness.<\/p>\n<p>Can you play a song for us, preferably a feline lullaby?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;Induced Insomnia in Battlefield<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, II, all I can recommend is that you take those little boys to the vet to get tutored which will calm them down and <a href=\"https:\/\/stlspayneuter.org\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">make Brook and Amy Dubman happy<\/a>.  In the meantime, here is &#8220;Needles in the Dark&#8221; by Pretty Maids to get you through the long day and onto another sleepless night of cat games.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daKLZrZkYxQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A listener in Missouri writes: Brian, we recently adopted two little boy kittens, almost twin brothers, who are the cutest things. We decided not to declaw them, and they&#8217;re growing up nicely, but they have one habit I&#8217;m not fond of: They sleep all day, curled up in a chair next to each other, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30695,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30690\/revisions\/30695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}