{"id":44682,"date":"2014-08-28T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T03:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/the-black-purrl.html"},"modified":"2014-08-28T22:49:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T04:49:16","slug":"the-black-purrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/the-black-purrl.html","title":{"rendered":"The Black Purrl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">So we have a new cat.Our friends, Doug and Laura, had a friend (and Laura&#8217;s aunt), Viola, to whom they had given Laura&#8217;s cat Pearl a while back when the other cats in the household were having a problem. Viola just passed away, and Doug and Laura couldn&#8217;t take Pearl back, so &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; so now we&#8217;re a house of three Kitties, including the newly-acquired black-sable long-hair petite Ms Pearl, the 11yo &#8220;maiden aunt&#8221; to our young ladies. She&#8217;s in quarantine in the guest room until kitty scents co-mingle in the household and we can do some gentle introductions. She seems a very friendly (and loving-to-be-petted) cat, and I think (hope) she&#8217;ll fit right in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"gpb-album-title\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6052824874889398833\">In album Black Purrl<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gpb-photo-primary\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-pj8yNqbiCOs\/U__0KEoMgrI\/AAAAAAACy14\/ATH562BlvQo\/IMG_20140828_195517639.jpg?imgmax=1024\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpb-photo-thumbnail\">\n<div style=\"height: 60px; width: 60px; overflow: hidden; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; display: inline-block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6052824874889398833\/6052824878732816690\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-2B5AJhKdUQQ\/U__0KHCEMTI\/AAAAAAACy14\/kdpU0z94A4g\/IMG_20140828_195426369.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"gpb-links\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a class=\"gpb-linkback\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/12dhwgUZ88s\" target=\"_new\">View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we have a new cat.Our friends, Doug and Laura, had a friend (and Laura&#8217;s aunt), Viola, to whom they had given Laura&#8217;s cat Pearl a while back when the other cats in the household were having a problem. Viola just passed away, and Doug and Laura couldn&#8217;t take Pearl back, so &#8230; &#8230; so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/the-black-purrl.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Black Purrl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_20140828_195340093.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137065,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/rip-purrl.html","url_meta":{"origin":44682,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Purrl","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Sep-18 4:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We inherited Purrl (fully, \"The Black Purrl\") just over four years ago when she arrived as an elegant 11-year-old (full story). 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