{"id":606,"date":"2012-07-08T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=606"},"modified":"2012-07-08T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:38:11","slug":"the-cat-sat-on-the-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"The cat sat on the mat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=605\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-605\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-605\" title=\"cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cat-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cat-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cat.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The cat sat on the mat.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that, in six simple words, is what happened.\u00a0 The cat sat on the mat.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not what you expect to read when you pick up an \u2018important report\u2019, is it?\u00a0 For your many pieces of gold, you expect rather more than six single-syllable words.<\/p>\n<p>You expect substance.\u00a0 You expect evidence of industry and erudition.\u00a0 You expect, well, <em>words<\/em>, polysyllabic words, and lots of them.<\/p>\n<p>And so \u2026 by all accounts, the small fur-covered quadrupedal mammal, described by an eye witness (whose veracity is not, in this particular instance, to be doubted) as feline <em>(Felis catus<\/em> or<em> Felis silvestris catus, <\/em>and informally,<em> Felis domesticus)<\/em>, reportedly chose to adopt a semi-recumbent position on top of a rectangular-shaped portion of textile-based floor covering which, for the record, we will categorise as a mat.<\/p>\n<p>There.\u00a0 Is that better?<\/p>\n<p>No, I didn\u2019t think so either.\u00a0 As simple, as basic, as childlike as it may seem, \u2018The cat sat on the mat\u2019 pretty much says it all.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you sit down to write an important document, it might be an idea to remember that cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cat sat on the mat. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that, in six simple words, is what happened.\u00a0 The cat sat on the mat.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not what you expect to read when you pick up an \u2018important report\u2019, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=606\">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":[],"categories":[3,5,6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}