{"id":19991,"date":"2020-10-11T00:10:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T04:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=19991"},"modified":"2021-03-07T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:53:46","slug":"moments-captured-in-time-portraits-of-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/moments-captured-in-time-portraits-of-mia\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments Captured in Time – Portraits of Mia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Mia and me, our happiest moments are those that are also the quietest.<\/p><\/div>\n

I love all my cats, each for their wonderfully distinct personalities, but I share a special affinity for my sweet Mia, a cat who most vividly mirrors me if I were a cat and she a human. We both have our moments of strength and boldness, but for the most part, we are introverts at heart, rather unbothered by our frequent desire for peace and solitude.<\/p>\n

This is especially true now. Her other catmates, most particularly her brother, Rolz, and more recently, Jazmine, have taken to chasing after her, causing her to seek refuge in what is now her primary residence \u2013 a safe and cozy loft atop our television armoire where she can watch the comings and goings of the world from above. Cats instinctively gravitate to higher ground and it\u2019s her way of controlling her environment. The bullying has stopped, so if she\u2019s happy, I\u2019m okay with her up there. We\u2019ve given her a nice comfy cushion to sleep on and she\u2019ll come down for litter breaks, meals, and to snuggle with some of the other cats when she wants feline company.<\/p>\n

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While the armoire is quite large – extending across the width of the living room, Mia prefers to nap, tucked away in her little corner spot.<\/p><\/div>\n

Her most cherished moments now are those that I also cherish. Every night after dinner, it\u2019s my ritual and gift to my cats to take them outside to enrich their world and experience the freedom of life outside the confines of our house. I supervise them the entire time and our yard is securely fenced in, or otherwise, I would not do it.<\/p>\n

They all thrive \u2013 running, jumping, sniffing, climbing, and most blessedly, stretching and reveling in the glorious heat the warm sun radiates on their fur. Mia comes out of her shell for these moments and blossoms in the fresh air. She really doesn\u2019t do much exploring or wandering, more so she just loves relaxing, enjoying the peace of her own company, as well as mine.<\/p>\n

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\nI\u2019m no expert in photography and only have my iPhone, but I look forward to capturing those moments with her and I\u2019ve been taking pictures of her enjoying her habitat. Since it\u2019s also Sunday, aka Sunday Selfie, I thought I\u2019d share some of my favorite Mia images that I\u2019ve taken over the past several months.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy the day everyone and remember as Mia does, that we can all shine when we want to, even the quiet ones\u2026 And just for fun, if you were one of your cats, which one would it be and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love all my cats, each for their wonderfully distinct personalities, but I share a special affinity for my sweet Mia, a cat who most vividly mirrors me if I were a cat and she a human. We both have our moments of strength and boldness, but for the most part, we are introverts at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,1378,3,1216,1099],"tags":[1255,1422,1420,1421],"class_list":["post-19991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-behavior","category-feline-human-bond","category-inspiration-healing","category-sunday-selfie","category-the-zee-zoey-cats-and-family","tag-feline-boredom","tag-feline-enrichment","tag-introverted-cat","tag-quiet-moments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mia-shine-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19991","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=19991"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20244,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19991\/revisions\/20244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}