{"id":16,"date":"2007-11-01T20:02:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T01:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/meerkat\/my-brother-is-such-a-sycophant\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T00:06:49","slug":"my-brother-is-such-a-sycophant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/meerkats-posts\/my-brother-is-such-a-sycophant","title":{"rendered":"my brother is such a sycophant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sycophant:\u00a0 n. a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.<br \/>\n(dictionary.com, american heritage dictionary)<\/p>\n<p>there he is just sitting on missus human&#8217;s lap and purring like his life depended on it.\u00a0 and the way he took to the presents she brought!\u00a0 i for one am not as easily bought.\u00a0 here&#8217;s my idea of a cool cat toy:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/paper-bag.jpg\" alt=\"An Even Better Toy!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>between my brother and big grey cat, i don&#8217;t know who is the worse lackey. they follow missus human around from room to room and then (gasp!) <em>sit in her lap<\/em>.\u00a0 <strong>have they no pride?<\/strong>\u00a0 they worship mister human in the same manner.<\/p>\n<p>big grey cat meets the humans every time they come in through the front door.\u00a0 in fact, now that i remember it, when the missus human opened the door to our dorm room at the boarding school, my brother immediately jumped into missus human&#8217;s arms and turned on the purr-motor.\u00a0 i guess i should have seen this coming.<\/p>\n<p>you won&#8217;t catch me fawning all over the humans like my brother and big grey cat.\u00a0 i will continue to resist the humans&#8217; attempts to turn me into a groveling, kowtowing lap cat.\u00a0 i am kitten, hear me roar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sycophant:\u00a0 n. a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people. (dictionary.com, american heritage dictionary) there he is just sitting on missus human&#8217;s lap and purring like his life depended on it.\u00a0 and the way he took to the presents she brought!\u00a0 i for one am not as easily bought.\u00a0 here&#8217;s my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat-pride","category-meerkats-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefurrybambinos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}