{"id":13244,"date":"2013-06-01T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2013-06-30T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T01:20:24","slug":"june-random-thread-cats-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"June Random Thread: Cats and Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Muse_Cats-and-dogs.gif\" alt=\"Muse covers: July-August 2002 (cats) and November-December 2002 (dogs)\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>After years of clamorous demands from readers, in 2002 <em>Muse<\/em> finally succumbed and ran theme issues devoted to cats (July\/August) and dogs (November\/December).<\/p>\n<p>The cat issue ran eight articles on cats (including an excerpt from Terry Pratchett&#8217;s book <em>The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents<\/em>) and one about Dale Chihuly, &#8220;the Pied Piper of Glass.&#8221; The dog issue was all-dog, right down to the Q&#038;A column (Rosanne on whether dogs pet one another, Robert on why they drool so much). It also ran this letter with a vaguely familiar byline: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/GrantO_letter.gif\" alt=\"Grant O. letter in November-December 2002 issue\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ideas for future random threads are <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12791\">still welcome<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Users&#8217; Manual:<\/strong> Obey <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=18\">The Rules<\/a>. Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=89\">The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13335,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}