{"id":18,"date":"2008-07-27T02:14:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T02:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/?p=18"},"modified":"2018-01-28T06:38:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:38:01","slug":"why-cats-are-better-than-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/27\/why-cats-are-better-than-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why cats are better than babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny\r\nFrom: dcohen@paul.rutgers.edu (Dawn Myfanwy Cohen)\r\nSubject: Cat owners will agree...\r\nDate: Wed, 8 Mar 95 4:30:01 EST<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known a number of people who told me that they were really eager to have babies. Having a spouse or good job would be ok, too, but what they were really after was the babies. I never understood the attraction for a long time, but then it hit me. They must want babies like I wanted a cat. (Until recently I lived in a dormitory, where people of the furry persuasion are the subject of intense discrimination.) Though I now understand the feelings of those who have the unfulfilled cravings of the existence of another living creature in the house, I feel it my duty to point out the flaws in their reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 reasons why kittens are better than babies:<\/p>\n<p>10. Veterinarians have evening hours.<\/p>\n<p>9. Your kitten won&#8217;t be able to disturb the whole movie theater with its crying. Hell, you don&#8217;t even have to take the kitten with you, and if you don&#8217;t, you don&#8217;t even&#8217;t have to worry about whether or not the sitter is available tonight.<\/p>\n<p>8. Your kitten won&#8217;t grow out of those cute but expensive clothes within three months.<\/p>\n<p>7. Kittens look cute if they haven&#8217;t had a bath this month.<\/p>\n<p>6. You probably don&#8217;t have to lie awake nights wondering how you are going to finance your kitten&#8217;s college (or high school) education.<\/p>\n<p>5. No one will accuse you of being an unfit mother if you don&#8217;t want to breast feed your kitten.<\/p>\n<p>4. No one will accuse you of perversion or sexual abuse if you fondle your kitten.<\/p>\n<p>3. Dan Quayle can&#8217;t accuse you of destroying the moral fabric of the country if you aren&#8217;t married to the father of your kitten. In fact, nobody will ever ask you if you know who the father is.<\/p>\n<p>2. No one will question your abilities to function normally at your job when they hear you just got a kitten.<\/p>\n<p>And the Number 1 reason:<\/p>\n<p>1. You only have to change a litter box once a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: dcohen@paul.rutgers.edu (Dawn Myfanwy Cohen) Subject: Cat owners will agree&#8230; Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 4:30:01 EST I&#8217;ve known a number of people who told me that they were really eager to have babies. Having a spouse or good job would be ok, too, but what they were really after was the babies. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/27\/why-cats-are-better-than-babies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why cats are better than babies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}