{"id":717,"date":"2006-09-22T20:24:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:05:52","slug":"tanit-and-moloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Tanit and Moloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that the\u00c2\u00a0morning that\u00c2\u00a0my wife and I left for Denmark our cat, O&#8217;Shea, suffered renal failure and we had to put her down <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=652\">half an hour before driving to the airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Claudia told me between tears on the way back that she and my son Robb would gang up on me and force\u00c2\u00a0me to get a new cat. Regular readers know that upon our return we got a <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=688\">&#8220;providential&#8221; email<\/a> resulting in Tanit.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that\u00c2\u00a0we got another email telling us about, Moloch,\u00c2\u00a0a male kitten, named for Carthage&#8217;s God of the sun. Moloch we were told had been confined to a cage for two months. I emailed back my\u00c2\u00a0friend,\u00c2\u00a0the Animal Allies volunteer,\u00c2\u00a0telling her that\u00c2\u00a0if she didn&#8217;t send my any more guilt inducing emails\u00c2\u00a0about damned cats I&#8217;d take Moloch too.<\/p>\n<p>My son is in heaven. I picked them up this afternoon and my allergies haven&#8217;t kicked in yet. The boy, Moloch, is oblivious to Tanit, the Godess of the Moon who hisses everytime he blunders by.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I get a special kick out of Moloch because I&#8217;ve always liked Manx cats with their stubby tails.\u00c2\u00a0Moloch&#8217;s tail wags like a Republican&#8217;s finger.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/88\/250127934_168707469e_m.jpg\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/250127933_f5da7f0152_m.jpg\" width=\"222\" \/><br \/>\nTanit\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Moloch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that the\u00c2\u00a0morning that\u00c2\u00a0my wife and I left for Denmark our cat, O&#8217;Shea, suffered renal failure and we had to put her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}