{"id":117,"date":"2010-05-17T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/05\/the-real-sand-cat.html"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:59:22","slug":"the-real-sand-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/05\/the-real-sand-cat.html","title":{"rendered":"the real Sand Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked the name &#8220;sandCat&#8221; for my blog entirely on a whim, mostly because my nickname is Cat, and I am living in the desert (where there is&#8230;uh&#8230;sand). To my surprise and delight I read this morning (in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7days.ae\/\" target=\"new\">7days<\/a> newspaper) about the successful IVF breeding of a Sand Cat kitten by the Al Ain Zoo and some US scientists. The cat is native to the UAE and Arabia but sadly is in danger of extinction.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t s(he) lovely.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-658\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/doc005.jpg\" alt=\"sandcat\" title=\"sandcat\" width=\"227\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/doc005.jpg 227w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/doc005-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[what a cutie]<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked the name &#8220;sandCat&#8221; for my blog entirely on a whim, mostly because my nickname is Cat, and I am living in the desert (where there is&#8230;uh&#8230;sand). To my surprise and delight I read this morning (in the 7days newspaper) about the successful IVF breeding of a Sand Cat kitten by the Al Ain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}