{"id":1011,"date":"2007-08-06T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:47","slug":"lily-and-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Lily and cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_2914.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095409693188589378\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_2914-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Remember the new purple waterlily I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1033\">in this post<\/a>, well, here&#8217;s one open. Nice, huh? I like the color combination, but wish it would bloom a bit more. I feel like I ought to fertilize the pond plants, but with so many fish at the moment, it&#8217;s probably not necessary!<\/p>\n<p>We had an odd frog incident: I found a smallish bullfrog dead on the slate floor of the gazebo next to the pond. At first I thought maybe it had hopped out and baked itself somehow on the oven-hot slate, but then I noticed one of its&#8217; legs was a few feet away and half-chewed up. This afternoon brought a possible explanation: my husband startled a cat from the pond area this morning. That explains how yesterday&#8217;s dead frog moved itself a foot or more by this afternoon!  I also found a black swallowtail dead on the floor of the gazebo &#8211; wings only!  I expect cats to hunt birds and baby rabbits, but bullfrogs and butterflies?  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I wish my neighbors were more responsible with their cats.  I could never get away with the same behavior with a dog &#8211; why should it be any different for cat owners?  At any rate, my husband set a trap out &#8211; I would hate to see a neighbor&#8217;s beloved pet end up at the pound, but we won&#8217;t have a well-fed housecat using our garden as a hunting ground.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the new purple waterlily I mentioned in this post, well, here&#8217;s one open. Nice, huh? I like the color combination, but wish it would bloom a bit more. I feel like I ought to fertilize the pond plants, but with so many fish at the moment, it&#8217;s probably not necessary! We had an odd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lily and cats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,31,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}