{"id":709,"date":"2008-05-09T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2008-05-09T05:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:00:57","slug":"709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/709\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They have dodged bullets and bombs and the other associated dangers of a life lived in Baghdad. One was smuggled over the border from Iraq to Kuwait &#8211; the taxi narrowly avoiding being taken out by an improvised explosive device &#8211; and the others were flown straight out of Baghdad airport. <\/p>\n<p>But they are not refugees fleeing a warzone. They are stray cats who have been relocated from Baghdad to a semi-detached house in a small town just north of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Their rescuer Louise &#8211; she does not want to give her surname or the name of her town for security reasons &#8211; has been nicknamed the Cat Lady of Baghdad because of her penchant for picking up the feral strays, domesticating them, then flying them off to what she believes is a better life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/may\/03\/iraq.wildlife\">Operation Pet Rescue by warzone Cat Woman<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, yes, <em>The Graun<\/em> on May 3, 2008. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baghdadcatrescue.com\/\">Baghdad Cat Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have dodged bullets and bombs and the other associated dangers of a life lived in Baghdad. One was smuggled over the border from Iraq to Kuwait &#8211; the taxi narrowly avoiding being taken out by an improvised explosive device &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/709\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20,33],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-companion-animals","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}