{"id":3311,"date":"2021-06-12T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:41:47","slug":"story-love-of-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/12\/3311\/","title":{"rendered":"Love of Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat-2536662_1920-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat-2536662_1920-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat-2536662_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat-2536662_1920-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat-2536662_1920-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat-2536662_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The\naphorism in the story \u201cLove of Cats\u201d reminds the listener that love involves\nseeing the world from the perspective of whomever you love, and in order to do\nso it is necessary to spend time carefully and respectfully observing his or\nher individual thoughts and lifestyle. It is useful to distinguish between what\nthe other party actually wants and what I might want if I were him or her. When\ndirect questioning is impossible (in the case of young children, individuals\nwith a mental disability, coma patients, people suffering from aphasia or\npeople who speak a different language, for example), careful observation of\nnon-verbal reactions is generally helpful.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend once asked me, \u201cIf cat owners only want the\nbest for their pets, why can you buy venison-flavoured cat food and yet you can\u2019t\nbuy mouse-flavoured cat food?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aphorism in the story \u201cLove of Cats\u201d reminds the listener that love involves seeing the world from the perspective of whomever you love, and in order to do so it is necessary to spend time carefully and respectfully observing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/12\/3311\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}