{"id":21712,"date":"2026-04-09T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=21712"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:26:51","slug":"happy-18th-birthday-to-my-angel-zoey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/happy-18th-birthday-to-my-angel-zoey\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 18th birthday to my angel, Zoey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21713\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21713\" class=\"borderGreen wp-image-21713\" src=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat-768x1079.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beautiful Zoey<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"582\">Today would have been Zoey\u2019s 18th birthday. I last held her in my arms on the evening of November 19, 2025, when I helped her cross over on her heavenly journey.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"996\">I wish I could have prepared a lovely tribute to her, but my heart cannot bear the pain. My precious soul kitty, I miss her so terribly. A beautiful bag sits in the guest room where I last held her, with a few clippings of her soft, silky fur. I have enormous difficulty going into that room. Writing this has made me realize how much unresolved grief I am carrying, as if part of me is still in denial, as though it never really happened.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1101\">Her ashes sit in the living room, where she rests with her beloved Zee and companions, Harley and Jazz. Maybe one day I can share posts with glorious memories. Right now, I just want to quietly honor her birthday and the thoughts of her that are forever etched in my heart.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1333\">Happy birthday, my beautiful girl. I miss you so very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Zoey\u2019s 18th birthday. I last held her in my arms on the evening of November 19, 2025, when I helped her cross over on her heavenly journey. I wish I could have prepared a lovely tribute to her, but my heart cannot bear the pain. My precious soul kitty, I miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378,1097,1143,1099],"tags":[1543,1544,6],"class_list":["post-21712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feline-human-bond","category-multi-cat-home","category-rainbow-bridge","category-the-zee-zoey-cats-and-family","tag-heavenly-birthday","tag-soul-cat","tag-zoey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18-BD-Zoey-the-angelic-Bengal-cat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712","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=21712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21716,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712\/revisions\/21716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}