{"id":11472,"date":"2016-07-01T22:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=11472"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"sci-fi-friday-furkids-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/sci-fi-friday-furkids-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Friday and the Furkids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2164 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Cochise Casual Dining before sleep\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>This evening we engaged in some casual dining and watched an old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Science-Fiction-Theatre-Truman-Bradley\/dp\/B00TJ30A04\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=movies-tv&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1466620056&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=science+fiction+theater&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=alladougdesi-20&amp;linkId=d7882327c97ddf3994e1ce4f9f62fea7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science Fiction Theater<\/a> episode (1950&#8217;s stuff). Mostly, this is a human thing, but the furkids like it too because they get to eat in the living room with us and they get a special treat after dinner. They generally sleep through the program, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2165 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"furkids Blondie avoiding the light\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>At bed time Marie and I sit in bed and read for a while. Sometimes we use book lights and turn off the lamps. But tonight my batteries were low. Blondie Bear is saying, &#8220;Would you PLEASE turn off the lights and go to sleep &#8230; I&#8217;m TIRED.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cochise could not hide under the bed without risking getting stepped on, so he made do with what was available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2166 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"furkids Cochise Avoiding the Light\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Eventually Marie and I got sleepy too, turned off the lights, and went to sleep. Then the furkids could take up normal sleeping positions and get some proper rest.\u00a0 The poor dears! (wink)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening we engaged in some casual dining and watched an old Science Fiction Theater episode (1950&rsquo;s stuff). Mostly, this is a human thing, but the furkids like it too because they get to eat in the living room with us and they get a special treat after dinner. They generally sleep through the program, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/sci-fi-friday-furkids-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sci-Fi Friday and the Furkids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mountain-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18839,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/18839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}