{"id":372,"date":"2010-05-12T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2010-05-12T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T04:51:35","slug":"i-was-gone-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"I Was Gone Five Minutes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then, I realize that Monkey Kitty is great training for the eventual day when I might have children.\u00a0 Sure, as long as there’s enough food and water I can potentially leave him alone for a weekend, but at the same time, if I leave anything “dangerous” around?<\/p>\n

Five minutes.<\/p>\n

For example, I was working on the Wedding Blanket when I decided to ask the Blanket Thief<\/a> a question.\u00a0 I left a ball of yarn attached to a swatch on the coffee table while I went upstairs to consult with him.\u00a0 I wasn’t out of the room for more than five minutes.\u00a0 And when I came down?<\/p>\n

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To give you an idea of the damage he wreaked, here’s a close up:<\/p>\n

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That used<\/em> to be a slightly blockish ball of tightly wound yarn with a neat ball band on it.\u00a0 At this point, it’s roughly three times normal size.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Monkey Kitty made it clear that he did not understand why I was yelling about being “gone for five minutes!<\/em>” and that if I would just go away again, he’d like to finish what he started.<\/p>\n

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And that neat little ball band that had originally been around the ball of yarn?\u00a0 The Blanket Thief found it hidden in the bottom of Monkey Kitty’s hide-away bag, without a single tear or mark on it.<\/p>\n

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It’s really quite amazing what that cat can do in five minutes.\u00a0 Especially considering that he doesn’t have opposable thumbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then, I realize that Monkey Kitty is great training for the eventual day when I might have children.\u00a0 Sure, as long as there’s enough food and water I can potentially leave him alone for a weekend, but at the same time, if I leave anything “dangerous” around? Five minutes. For example, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-monkey-kitty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}