{"id":1977,"date":"2009-03-09T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2009-03-13T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T17:59:07","slug":"im-only-doing-this-for-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m only doing this for the cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No kidding.\u00a0 The minute the Cat o&#8217; Death leaves, I&#8217;m ignoring Crankshaft with no regret.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are a few loose ends to tie up, like dealing with a jilted boyfriend from 60-odd years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/new-crankshaft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1978\" title=\"new-crankshaft\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/new-crankshaft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/new-crankshaft.jpg 870w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/new-crankshaft-249x54.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, rumor has it that Eugene (the old guy standing by the car, erstwhile boyfriend from 60-odd years ago) died in the war.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know which war&#8230;WWII, WWi, the Crimean.\u00a0 Anyway, if this is the case, it isn&#8217;t so much the fault of Batuituiiutk and Errors, but rather a testament to <strong><em>The Power of Barney, Cat o&#8217; Death! <\/em><\/strong><em>All hail Barney!<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>Bar-nee! Bar-Nee! Bar-<strong>NEE!<\/strong><\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is why cats were worshiped in ancient Egypt, people.<\/p>\n<p>And after a week of Eugene wandering through Crankshaftville, his addled mind juxtapositioning fragile, sepia-toned photographs of him and Lucy with the reality of a Midwestern city in the last throes of urban decay, I&#8217;m really, really hoping this is the last we see of him and his misty, water-damaged memories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/not-crankshaft-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2014\" title=\"not-crankshaft-3\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/not-crankshaft-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/not-crankshaft-3.jpg 530w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/not-crankshaft-3-250x89.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No kidding.\u00a0 The minute the Cat o&#8217; Death leaves, I&#8217;m ignoring Crankshaft with no regret. Of course, there are a few loose ends to tie up, like dealing with a jilted boyfriend from 60-odd years ago&#8230; Oh, rumor has it that Eugene (the old guy standing by the car, erstwhile boyfriend from 60-odd years ago) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}