{"id":2910,"date":"2012-04-02T00:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:10:53","slug":"just-a-little-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"Just a little one"},"content":{"rendered":"

My most favorite author and all time brilliant but misunderstood writer, Dorothy Parker (pause, genuflect and meditate for a moment on one or another bon mot that name brings to mind<\/span><\/em>) wrote a lovely litte short story with that title that serves well as a audition piece for actresses. But beware, it is incredibly challenging to pull off as a party piece.<\/p>\n

I mention it only because I am shameless in using just about any opportunity to show off Miss Parker and expand the world’s knowledge of one of the great writers of the 20th century. Yes, I seriously believe that. Even better than Hemingway…okay, I am not a huge Hemingway fan to begin with so my opinion there may be slightly skewed.<\/p>\n

But before I let my inner English major hijack this post, I’d best get back to why I chose that title and how it relates to the letter “B”.<\/p>\n

One of the suggestions on the A-Z challenge b<\/a>log page is keep it short, keep it simple. While I personally may be both, my blogging style, as many…some…someone out there…can attest are rarely either.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>This one is to be short and about something very little but wonderful and worthy of attention. Thanks to Mimi Boothby<\/a>\u00a0, talented painter and blogger, I was introduced to a wee creature, the Black Footed Cat. \u00a0I’m not sure why I am so taken with this one, maybe it’s because it looks a lot like our family cat but smaller (you could fit 2 black footed cats in our cat and she’d still have room for dessert).<\/p>\n

It is probably one of the more endangered wild cats skulking about the planet but many organizations are working to change that. There is the International Society for Endangered Cats<\/a>\u00a0 or the Feline Conservation Federation<\/a>\u00a0. Check the links and read about the critters.<\/p>\n

Oh, and they’re small but feisty. There are reports of them bringing down animals much, much bigger than they are, like, um, sheep…<\/p>\n

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Squatch in natural habitat<\/p><\/div>\n

And that is my short post…shortish…yeah, I’ll practise…<\/p>\n

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For those who want to ready “Just a Little One” here’s a link…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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