{"id":219,"date":"2021-03-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2021-03-09T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T01:17:53","slug":"your-pet-is-not-your-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Your pet is not your &#8220;baby&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK yall, we gotta stop with this calling your pet your baby shit.  I know im gonna get a ton of flack for this because literally everyone I know calls their pets their babies.  Hey, my dad calls his dog my sister.  He likes the dog better though, and thats why he&#8217;s a bastard.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, your pet is your family.  You might even, like my father, openly admit you like the pet better than your children.  It happens.  I don&#8217;t want a kid.  Have yall met my precious J?  He&#8217;s my soul creature, my witchy familiar, maybe even my soul mate, but he&#8217;s not my baby.  He&#8217;s a piece of me and will ALWAYS be a piece of me.  He&#8217;s a splinter of my soul in cat form.  I get it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I just got a paragraph into a Facebook post about a friend of a friends baby dying and was terribly upset for everyone involved, only to realize, like two paragraphs in, that it was a dog.  THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.  I thought you were mourning a human child who had been in an auto accident that another human driver was going to have on his conscious for the rest of his life.  I repeat: THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK yall, we gotta stop with this calling your pet your baby shit. I know im gonna get a ton of flack for this because literally everyone I know calls their pets their babies. Hey, my dad calls his dog my sister. He likes the dog better though, and thats why he&#8217;s a bastard. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,78,8,97,89,88],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","tag-baby","tag-cat","tag-cats","tag-cursing-cats","tag-familiar","tag-pets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cursingcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}