{"id":176,"date":"2017-03-06T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2017-07-27T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:34:28","slug":"why-do-cats-purr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/why-do-cats-purr\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do cats purr?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/stories\/why-do-cats-purr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/purring-kitty.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/purring-kitty.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg 653w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/purring-kitty.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Modisette\/flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/stories\/why-do-cats-purr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why do cats purr?<\/a><br \/>\nThese comforting sounds are good for them and for us, too.<\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to assume that cats purr because they&#8217;re happy. After all, when your kitty contentedly curls up in your lap for some well-deserved scratches and rubs, she&#8217;s obviously one happy feline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, cats also purr when they\u2019re frightened or feel threatened, such as during a visit to the vet.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/stories\/why-do-cats-purr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do cats purr? These comforting sounds are good for them and for us, too. &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to assume that cats purr because they&#8217;re happy. After all, when your kitty contentedly curls up in your lap for some well-deserved scratches and rubs, she&#8217;s obviously one happy feline. However, cats also purr when they\u2019re frightened or &hellip;<\/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-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}