{"id":8259,"date":"2013-08-05T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2013-08-05T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:23:56","slug":"cats-vs-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8259","title":{"rendered":"Cats vs Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is from Peggy Noonan’s column in the WSJ on Saturday August 3, 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I have a friend who once told me the difference between cats and dogs. When you get up in the morning and feed your dog he looks up at you and thinks: “She comes, finds my food and pours it for me\u2014she must be a god.” A cat thinks: “She comes, finds my food and pours it out for me\u2014I must be a god.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately politicians\u2014no matter how they started out, with what modesty or inner sense of stability\u2014tend to wind up as cats.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from Peggy Noonan’s column in the WSJ on Saturday August 3, 2013 I have a friend who once told me the difference between cats and dogs. When you get up in the morning and feed your dog he looks up at you and thinks: “She comes, finds my food and pours it for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-29d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}