{"id":232,"date":"2007-01-16T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T04:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-01-09T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:55:55","slug":"horton-barney-miller-scribner-paulson-haughey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Horton Barney Miller Scribner Paulson Haughey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/barneykiely.jpg' alt='Kiely and Barney' style='margin-left:6px;' align='right' \/> For a cat who lived his life front and center, it is distressing not to be able to find a photo that does him justice. Not as distressing as saying good-bye though, and sadly, that was the story of today. Though all of us loved this quintessential orange-marmalade sweetie of a cat, today was hardest for Westi. Not wanting to part with him when they left the mountain to begin life in their own home, Westi and Mike have been Barney&#8217;s guardians for the last several years. What does it say that they could part with us but not with him? I like to think it says that Barney was one special cat.<\/p>\n<p>From pound kitty to unsuccessful &#8220;companion cat&#8221; for Gene Miller (the &#8220;Horton&#8221; stage of his life and it turned out Gene didn&#8217;t like cats), Barney came to us to be a barn kitty. But his new name was only a nod to this intent; he lasted a night or two in the barn before we broke down and moved him into the house. A sociable and adaptable guy, Barney was as solid as it gets, physically and emotionally. He was equally at home in the city and the woods, and I expect he&#8217;ll do fine wherever he goes next. Good-bye Barney. Thanks for sharing our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a cat who lived his life front and center, it is distressing not to be able to find a photo that does him justice. Not as distressing as saying good-bye though, and sadly, that was the story of today. Though all of us loved this quintessential orange-marmalade sweetie of a cat, today was hardest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}