{"id":2380,"date":"2020-07-29T22:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2020-07-29T22:05:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:05:05","slug":"neenereen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"neenereen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep thinking that if we hadn&#8217;t moved, maybe he&#8217;d still be alive.  Midwestern is just as busy as Brook Hill, but it was slightly farther away, outside his normal territory (even though I&#8217;d see him venture that far before).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our beloved Benjen was hit and killed by a car today.  A good samaritan found him in the road, moved him to the side, got his collar and found us.  I took his little body to the vet where they confirmed what we already suspected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was my favorite cat ever.  Here&#8217;s a list of some of the things I will miss about him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>He loved tummy rubs.  When he was in the mood, he would roll over in my lap and look up at me expectantly.  I rubbed his belly and he would nestle his head in the crook of my arm.  If I stopped, he would reach up toward me with his paw for me to resume the rubbing.  I thought it was a kitten thing and he would grow out of it, but he never did.<\/li><li>He would always ask politely to be let outside, usually with just a glance or a meow or a little nibble to my legs if I didn&#8217;t respond quickly enough.<\/li><li>He LOVED to be outside.  Whenever I&#8217;d meet him outdoors, he&#8217;d flop down anywhere and everywhere for a tummy rub.<\/li><li>He had the sweetest disposition.  He got along with all our other cats, and they all had issues with each other.  But not Benjen.  He was so easygoing and unflappable.<\/li><li>I loved the &#8220;mask&#8221; around his eyes and his coloration.  The dark tabby areas and the rest of him white.<\/li><li>He slept on top of me almost every night.  I laid down and pulled the blanket over me and 9 times out of 10 he was there before I&#8217;d even had a chance to settle in.<\/li><li>He would let me pick him up and hold him with both his front paws on my right shoulder.  He didn&#8217;t like being picked up generally, but he let me do it and purred more often than not.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I just want this day to end.  I don&#8217;t want to think anymore that less than 12 hours ago I petted him after he had a quick snack downstairs.  And that he was the first creature I said &#8220;Good morning&#8221; to when I got up.  We&#8217;re devastated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking that if we hadn&#8217;t moved, maybe he&#8217;d still be alive. Midwestern is just as busy as Brook Hill, but it was slightly farther away, outside his normal territory (even though I&#8217;d see him venture that far before). Our beloved Benjen was hit and killed by a car today. A good samaritan found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}