{"id":3700,"date":"2012-12-16T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/leave-papas-pussy-alone\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:28:32","slug":"leave-papas-pussy-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/16\/leave-papas-pussy-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Papa&#8217;s Pussies Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/todaytravel.today.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/11\/15842617-cat-fight-pits-government-against-hemingway-museum?lite\" target=\"_blank\">from TODAY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Cat fight pits government against Hemingway museum<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/todaytravel.today.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/11\/15842617-cat-fight-pits-government-against-hemingway-museum?lite\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rob O'neal \/ AP\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/121211-hemingway-cats-legal-battle.photoblog600.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By A. Pawlowski, TODAY.com contributor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A popular tourist attraction has lost another round in the legal battle over who is in charge of the slinky creatures with nine lives and six toes roaming its grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The 11th\u00a0Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the government does have the power to regulate the dozens of cats that live at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hemingwayhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ernest Hemingway Home &amp; Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Key West, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a notion the attraction has fought for years.<\/p>\n<p>When he lived in the house, Hemingway \u2014 a famous cat lover\u00a0\u2014\u00a0cared for a white polydactyl cat named Snowball that was given to him by a ship\u2019s captain. Snowball\u2019s offspring and other felines have been roaming the grounds ever since without much controversy. Court documents note that the museum has always kept, fed, and provided weekly veterinary care for the Hemingway cats, and spayed or neutered most of them \u201cto prevent population beyond the historical norm of 50\u201360 cats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very much an important part of the history of the property. We want people to come and see it the way it was when Hemingway was here\u00a0\u2014\u00a0to see it the same way he saw it, with the 50 cats running around the property,\u201d said Dave Gonzales, a spokesman for the Hemingway Home &amp; Museum, in a promotional video for the attraction posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery corner you take on this acre of land, you\u2019ll find a couple of cats either snoozing or eating or lapping up some water off the cat fountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/todaytravel.today.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/11\/15842617-cat-fight-pits-government-against-hemingway-museum?lite\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at TODAY<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TODAY Cat fight pits government against Hemingway museum By A. Pawlowski, TODAY.com contributor A popular tourist attraction has lost another round in the legal battle over who is in charge of the slinky creatures with nine lives and six toes roaming its grounds. The 11th\u00a0Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}