{"id":1620,"date":"2024-08-17T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2024-08-17T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T15:04:43","slug":"cat-nights-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Cat Nights Begin\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is Black Cat Appreciation Day. Coincidentally, (or not, it\u2019s possibly related and some savvy marketing people picked up on it) it\u2019s also the date Cat Nights Begin. This is apparently an obscure Irish legend pertaining to witches changing their form from human to feline, and getting stuck in cat form if they take the form nine times. To learn more, follow the link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.almanac.com\/fact\/cat-nights-begin-the-term-cat-nights-holiday?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3-Wu8HHJWB8DJHJcG6OqnDOj0e1tg7I7RCLMLjH3ae_-FzP2aX0auIoys_aem_RCmW95Jixh_db8WWI7BNnw\">https:\/\/www.almanac.com\/fact\/cat-nights-begin-the-term-cat-nights-holiday?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3-Wu8HHJWB8DJHJcG6OqnDOj0e1tg7I7RCLMLjH3ae_-FzP2aX0auIoys_aem_RCmW95Jixh_db8WWI7BNnw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re lucky enough to share your home with a mini panther, you\u2019ll know every day is Black Cat Appreciation Day.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2B25F8CB-5650-4F93-8EA7-0A8336E820B6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2B25F8CB-5650-4F93-8EA7-0A8336E820B6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2B25F8CB-5650-4F93-8EA7-0A8336E820B6.jpeg 548w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2B25F8CB-5650-4F93-8EA7-0A8336E820B6-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The resident house panther when she first found her way home\u2026<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Black Cat Appreciation Day. Coincidentally, (or not, it\u2019s possibly related and some savvy marketing people picked up on it) it\u2019s also the date Cat Nights Begin. This is apparently an obscure Irish legend pertaining to witches changing their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}