{"id":136031,"date":"2018-04-04T23:09:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T05:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136031"},"modified":"2018-04-05T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:25:30","slug":"cats-took-human-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/cats-took-human-world.html","title":{"rendered":"How Cats Took Over the (Human) World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, for one, welcome our feline overlords. They&#8217;re cute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/how-cats-tamed-us\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/45xLLXdEF1eXl_4ROIDg5mNYuDbNVeVz0q0TZhDswEgp81Tx5oLvLqPmj0f2z_yoBYbFAbFJovE6MI3c5np3udK2mWGld4YtSh1SSNEGnqqXzLaJzMtsoKiDtis7pS_jFsoMdVaULDfzFQBW47aQNAWiKDkskockW8HM3iU7Ek2xNpu3Nr8=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/how-cats-tamed-us\">How Cats Tamed Us | The New Yorker<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hg3rHhWnR4b\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, for one, welcome our feline overlords. They&#8217;re cute. 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