{"id":347,"date":"2008-12-08T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/08\/let-them-eat-cats\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:22:00","slug":"let-them-eat-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/08\/let-them-eat-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Let them eat &#8211; cats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an essay last week in the Huffington Post about the sometimes mad foibles of the extremely wealthy that included this, rather bizarre reference to the Adirondacks:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I attended a luncheon at the private Club Colette in Palm Beach a few days ago for feral cats.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 400 of these wild animals on the island and they are treated better than the 4,000 homeless across the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>During the luncheon one wealthy matron got up to make her testimonial. &#8220;I have 18,000 acres in the Adirondacks,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll fly some of these cats up there in my private jet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, thanks.  That&#8217;s EXACTLY what we need.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackalmanack.com\/2008\/12\/i-have-18000-acres-in-adirondacks-ill.html\">Adirondack Almanack<\/a>, who first noticed the reference.  Read the original article in HuffPo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/laurence-leamer\/the-wages-of-wealth_b_148082.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an essay last week in the Huffington Post about the sometimes mad foibles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}