{"id":1867,"date":"2012-09-13T13:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2013-10-11T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:30:50","slug":"scratching-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Scratching Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lucy-Owlcrop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1035\" title=\"Lucy Owlcrop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lucy-Owlcrop-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lucy-Owlcrop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lucy-Owlcrop-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday my cat Lucy watched as I was topping up the oil under the bonnet (hood) of my car.\u00a0 Of course, cats have a natural curiosity about them.\u00a0 But she didn\u2019t come any further than the garden gate as I\u2019d previously impressed upon her (more than once) that were she to venture into the road, she\u2019d almost certainly be flattened into a two-dimensional tabby wall-hanging by a runaway juggernaut carrying twenty-two tons of concrete blocks and a replacement propeller for the<em> Queen Mary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was <em>she<\/em> who was looking at me as if <em>I<\/em> were the dumb critter.\u00a0 So I admitted that humans have often ignored the obvious and done many things that are quite dumb.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You mean like basing an entire civilization on the internal combustion engine?\u2019 her expression intimated. \u00a0\u2018All the while knowing full well that one day you\u2019ll run out of the resources to maintain it? \u2026 And even though rare geniuses like Nicola Tesla\u00a0and Wilhelm Reich come up with free-energy devices, rather than being welcomed with open arms, their work is destroyed and they\u2019re declared insane?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2026 Errm \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sparing me further embarrassment, she yawned, lay down and nodded off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my cat Lucy watched as I was topping up the oil under the bonnet (hood) of my car.\u00a0 Of course, cats have a natural curiosity about them.\u00a0 But she didn\u2019t come any further than the garden gate as I\u2019d previously impressed upon her (more than once) that were she to venture into the road, she\u2019d almost certainly be flattened into a two-dimensional tabby wall-hanging by a runaway juggernaut carrying twenty-two tons of concrete blocks and a replacement propeller for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=1867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}