{"id":11859,"date":"2026-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:37:41","slug":"keeping-my-chin-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11859","title":{"rendered":"Keeping My Chin Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cat-and-suspect.jpg?resize=584%2C377&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11860\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5311981387120281;width:426px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cat-and-suspect.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cat-and-suspect.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cat-and-suspect.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cat-and-suspect.jpg?resize=465%2C300&amp;ssl=1 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My intellectual purr-suits today included seeing CatVideoFest 2026. It\u2019s exactly what you imagine. Amateur videos of cats doing cat things. I feel so much better. One video showed a row of high-top food tables, where six cats were busily munching away. The caption was: \u201cSometimes you just try to blend in and hope for the best.\u201d One of the cats was a raccoon. (Picture: Siamese cat in law enforcement)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My intellectual purr-suits today included seeing CatVideoFest 2026. It\u2019s exactly what you imagine. Amateur videos of cats doing cat things. I feel so much better. One video showed a row of high-top food tables, where six cats were busily munching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,291,1821,632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-heres-the-latest","category-humor","category-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-35h","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}