{"id":141,"date":"2014-12-16T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:08:12","slug":"damien-lightner-an-awesome-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/damien-lightner-an-awesome-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Lightner: An Awesome Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_140\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/damienmoog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140\" src=\"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/damienmoog-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Damien, Kevin&#039;s beloved cat.\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/damienmoog-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/damienmoog-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/damienmoog-1024x842.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/damienmoog.jpg 1345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damien, Kevin&#8217;s beloved cat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>At 2:00am, Saturday, July 17th, 1993 my siamese cat, Damien, died.<\/p>\n<p>Damien meant more to me than almost anything or anyone.<br \/>\nHe had been my best friend since about 1981.<br \/>\nI went through a lot of life with my little boy, and I will miss him dearly. Although he was a cat and not a human, he affected my life in a more positive way than most human beings ever did or could, and filled a greater purpose in life as a cat, than many humans do as people.<\/p>\n<p>His expressions were a beautiful confirmation that animals do indeed have a soul, and one as deep and meaningful as any human.<br \/>\nDamien liked everyone equally. He never hurt anybody on purpose and was at harmony with humans, cats, dogs and even birds.<br \/>\nHe was a beautiful soul, in a beautiful body and he will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kevin Lightner, 7\/19\/1993<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When reading this, I realized that Kevin died 3 days shy of the 21st anniversary of Damien&#8217;s death.<br \/>\nI now wonder if he remembered that, or it&#8217;s just bizarre irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:00am, Saturday, July 17th, 1993 my siamese cat, Damien, died. Damien meant more to me than almost anything or anyone. He had been my best friend since about 1981. I went through a lot of life with my little boy, and I will miss him dearly. Although he was a cat and not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,18,10],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","tag-cats","tag-kevin","tag-synths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}