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The one place I had him on my radar constantly, though, was in the morning, when, for the last number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/gaps-in-the-family-fabric.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaps in the family fabric&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33436,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/morning-after-pill-access-opened-up-somewhat.html","url_meta":{"origin":13781,"position":0},"title":"Morning After Pill access opened up &#8230; somewhat","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Apr-13 7:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So now it's OTC for age 15+ ... but you'll need some sort of photo ID to prove age. \u00a0Which doesn't seem like it will allow many 15-year-olds to actually get access.While if my daughter decided she needed this I'd hope she'd let one or both of us (or some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11880,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/kleerup_kitty.html","url_meta":{"origin":13781,"position":1},"title":"Kleerup Kitty","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jan-08 10:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Never mind the wrapping in a towel and gently prying open the jaws. 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