{"id":1779,"date":"2020-08-29T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2020-09-03T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:25:27","slug":"its-zaturday-space-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/its-zaturday-space-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Zaturday – Space Cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n

Zorro here. Ziggy and I love hanging out on our catio in North Carolina. There are lots of fun things to see. Birds fly back and forth to the bird feeder all day long.<\/p>\n

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There are lots of squirrels on the ground, too. They like to eat the corn that Aunt Kim puts out for the deer. It\u2019s fun to watch them.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday a squirrel ran up the wire right in front of us! Ziggy and I both jumped, because it startled us.<\/p>\n

We like being out here in our catio at night, too. In the dark, there are different things to see. That\u2019s when the racoons come out. They\u2019re close to our size, but we\u2019re not sure if they\u2019re friendly. I\u2019d rather not find out.<\/p>\n

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Moths fly into our catio, too, especially if Mommy has the porch light on. They\u2019re fun to chase. Whenever I can catch them, I eat them. Mommy feeds me too good for me to be hungry, and the moths don\u2019t have much taste, but I guess it\u2019s just instinct. Mommy doesn\u2019t like it when I do that, though.<\/p>\n

Sometimes Ziggy and I just sit on the bar and look up into the sky. There are lots of little lights. (Mommy calls them stars.) I sometimes wonder what it\u2019s like up there. Although Ziggy and I travel a lot, we\u2019ve never been off the ground.<\/p>\n

Recently, Mommy learned about a cat that went into space back in 1963. She was a French tuxedo kitty named Felicette and was the only cat to ever travel to space. Before the mission, she and thirteen other cats went through the same preflight training that human astronauts do. I\u2019m not sure what that involves, but I probably wouldn\u2019t do very well. I get sick and throw up on Mommy when she drives around too many curves.<\/p>\n

When the cats finished their training, Felicette was chosen because of her calm disposition and because all the other cats had put on too much weight. She blasted off, and her rocket flew almost 100 miles above the earth at up to six times the speed of sound. Then thirteen minutes later, she parachuted back down to earth in her little space capsule, alive and well. Felicette\u2019s mission helped bring France into the space race.<\/p>\n

Mommy says that Felicette has her own statue, on display at the International Space University near Strasbourg. I don\u2019t want to go into space, but I think it would be really cool if Mommy and Daddy made a Zorro statue. I guess it would be okay if Ziggy got one, too.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy\u2019s blog. Zorro here. Ziggy and I love hanging out on our catio in North Carolina. There are lots of fun things to see. Birds fly back and forth to the bird feeder all day long. There are lots of squirrels on the ground, too. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[29,118],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-zaturday-when-ziggy-and-zorro-take-over","tag-cats","tag-space-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}