{"id":11529,"date":"2014-01-25T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2014-01-24T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T23:07:41","slug":"public-service-caturday-using-cats-as-a-guilt-free-excuse-to-prolong-doing-basic-household-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/public-service-caturday-using-cats-as-a-guilt-free-excuse-to-prolong-doing-basic-household-chores\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Caturday &#8211;  Using Cats as a Guilt-Free Excuse to Prolong Doing Basic Household Chores&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11531\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"Shutterset\" href=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Deb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11531\" class=\" wp-image-11531  \" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #81aa55;\" alt=\"Deb\" src=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Deb.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Deb.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Deb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Deb-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s always a good idea to organize and prioritize your excuses for not being able to get stuff done for the day&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Excuses? When it comes to doing the laundry, making the bed, cooking dinner, vacuuming, ironing, grocery shopping, paying the bills, cleaning the house, dusting, and just about any other household chore, having an excuse why you <strong>CAN&#8217;T<\/strong> do it is the best! Even though I am just about one of the most organized, goal-oriented, driven, and go get-em type of people I know, I am also a huge procrastinator, especially when it comes to the above and I love nothing better than a good excuse not to do something. And that&#8217;s another reason why I<strong> LOVE<\/strong> cats so much, because they are just about the best guilt-free excuse on earth for not having to get things done &#8211; check it out to see what I mean (and please click on images to enlarge if you have trouble reading the messages!)<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11530\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"Shutterset\" href=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CatsOnBigRed.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11530\" class=\"wp-image-11530  \" style=\"margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; border: 3px solid #81aa55;\" alt=\"CatsOnBigRed\" src=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CatsOnBigRed.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CatsOnBigRed.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CatsOnBigRed-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just look at those precious little faces&#8230; how can I possibly make the bed now?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11532\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"Shutterset\" href=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cat-on-hamper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11532\" class=\"wp-image-11532 \" style=\"margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; border: 3px solid #81aa55;\" alt=\"cat-on-hamper\" src=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cat-on-hamper.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cat-on-hamper.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cat-on-hamper-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why do laundry today when you can put it off for tomorrow?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11533\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"Shutterset\" href=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Kiz-keyboard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11533\" class=\" wp-image-11533    \" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #81aa55;\" alt=\"Kiz-keyboard\" src=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Kiz-keyboard.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Kiz-keyboard.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Kiz-keyboard-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pay some bills? Do some writing? I think not says Kizmet and who am I to argue with a cat?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11534\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"Shutterset\" href=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DebSofaCats.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11534\" class=\" wp-image-11534 \" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #81aa55;\" alt=\"DebSofaCats\" src=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DebSofaCats.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DebSofaCats.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DebSofaCats-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love an all-encompassing excuse&#8230; looks like I&#8217;ll have to spend the whole day on the couch watching TV with the kitties&#8230; oh well&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there you go&#8230; some of my favorite cat induced excuses that are tried and true. If you need to borrow them for yourself to prolong doing chores this weekend, please feel free. Thank you very much and if there are any I&#8217;ve missed on the list that you would care to share, please do so and consider it a public service&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuses? When it comes to doing the laundry, making the bed, cooking dinner, vacuuming, ironing, grocery shopping, paying the bills, cleaning the house, dusting, and just about any other household chore, having an excuse why you CAN&#8217;T do it is the best! Even though I am just about one of the most organized, goal-oriented, driven, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[339,1265,65,604,759],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-humor","tag-cat-humor","tag-cats","tag-caturday","tag-chores","tag-excuses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CatsOnBigRed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11546,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions\/11546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}