{"id":1544,"date":"2007-06-08T07:38:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cat-era-obscura\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T07:38:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:38:01","slug":"cat-era-obscura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cat-era-obscura","title":{"rendered":"Cat-era Obscura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One winter afternoon, my cat returned to the house in a panic, bleeding from one paw. He&#8217;d ripped a claw on something, so we cleaned him up and decided he wasn&#8217;t going outside for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Since there was a light snow on the ground, I decided to investigate by following his paw-prints. They led on through the yard, across the street, and into some woods behind the neighbor&#8217;s house. Given the distance between prints, I figured that he ripped his claw while racing back home, probably on rocks or hard ground.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, anytime we let him out, we wondered what he was up to. A gentleman in Germany wondered the same thing about his cat, so he rigged up a tiny digital camera to hang from Mr. Lee&#8217;s collar, and thus began <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mr-lee-catcam.de\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CatCam site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One winter afternoon, my cat returned to the house in a panic, bleeding from one paw. He&#8217;d ripped a claw on something, so we cleaned him up and decided he wasn&#8217;t going outside for a while. Since there was a light snow on the ground, I decided to investigate by following his paw-prints. They led &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cat-era-obscura\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cat-era Obscura&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suburbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-oU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1583,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lay-it-down","url_meta":{"origin":1544,"position":0},"title":"Lay it down","author":"Gil","date":"July 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's WSJ has an interview with GlaxoSmithKline CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier. 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