{"id":189,"date":"2015-10-10T19:33:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:02:38","slug":"tutis-blog-24-raining-cats-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/tutis-blog-24-raining-cats-and-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuti\u2019s Blog #24 – Raining Cats and Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raining Cats and Dogs<\/h2>\n

Today I woke up and heard The Carers saying it was \u2018raining cats and dogs\u2019. I am definitely not going outside, then, for my early morning constitutional, I said to myself, as I don\u2019t want to be knocked out by either an airborne cat or dog person. But when I looked out of the window expecting to witness this wondrously surreal sight all I could see was, well, water falling from the sky. So, on reflection, what a typically idiotic Human expression! Is it a corruption of French, or Danish, or Norwegian, or any other of the one-time invaders of these dismally damp islands, or perhaps of London Cockney rhyming slang? In any case, I am definitely not going outside, as I am not taking any chances on being clobbered by a free-falling Rottweiler, or \u2013 horrors! \u2013 getting wet, and shall content myself with scratching in the litter box. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raining Cats and Dogs Today I woke up and heard The Carers saying it was \u2018raining cats and dogs\u2019. I am definitely not going outside, then, for my early morning constitutional, I said to myself, as I don\u2019t want to be knocked out by either an airborne cat or dog person. But when I looked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}