{"id":1245,"date":"2012-07-05T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2012-07-07T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T01:41:32","slug":"losing-jamey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Losing Jamey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day about nine years ago, after Fabrice and I had lost a kitten to FIP, we were told about two kittens who had been abandoned on a corner down in Denver. Someone picked them up and took them to a nearby shop, and a (now former) Rockies member saw them and posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/well.com\">the Well<\/a> that they needed a home.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnfr.com\/misc\/kittens.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"kittens\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They came to live with us. Blue had white fur with black spots and Jamey, named in honor of a friend, turned out to have very long Maine-coon-type fur, which he was unfortunately allergic to so we learned to have him trimmed every spring.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of that, he was strong and healthy for the most part, and as loving and gentle a cat as I&#8217;ve ever known. This morning I walked upstairs and found him lying dead in the living room. The vet believes he had a stroke*.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d been fine when I saw him an hour before, so this was an utter shock. Fabrice and I are in deep mourning. His sister Blue and his adversary, our other cat Katy, live on.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnfr.com\/misc\/jamey.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Jamey\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, Jamey, our beautiful boy. We will miss you and think of you with love always.<\/p>\n<p><font=\"-1\">* See comments for more from the vet.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day about nine years ago, after Fabrice and I had lost a kitten to FIP, we were told about two kittens who had been abandoned on a corner down in Denver. Someone picked them up and took them to a nearby shop, and a (now former) Rockies member saw them and posted on the Well that they needed a home. They came to live with us. Blue had white fur with black spots and Jamey, named in honor of a friend, turned out to have very long Maine-coon-type fur, which he was unfortunately allergic to so we learned to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1245\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","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":[21],"tags":[117,118,119],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-cats","tag-death","tag-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-k5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}