{"id":129,"date":"2010-01-03T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/cats-in-amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:59:10","slug":"cats-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/cats-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many buildings in Amsterdam are old.  And they have a “native population”, that survives transfer of ownership.  To help deal with this, it is not unusual for restaurants to employ “peace keepers” of the four-legged sort.<\/p>\n

I recently met Mavis:<\/p>\n

\"Mavis\"<\/p>\n

Mavis was not above supplementing her rodent-chasing diet with handouts from the restaurant’s kitchen:<\/p>\n

\"a<\/p>\n

While I’m not naming the restaurant above, it should be noted that I have actually seen mice running across the floor in a (different) restaurant in Amsterdam, and Mavis was not the first resto-cat I’d encountered in that city.  Sometime back in 2003, I met this “greeter”:<\/p>\n

\"earlier\"<\/p>\n

\"unnamed\"<\/p>\n

Double-duty mouser & maitre d’? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Many buildings in Amsterdam are old.  And they have a “native population”, that survives transfer of ownership.  To help deal with this, it is not unusual for restaurants to employ “peace keepers” of the four-legged sort. I recently met Mavis: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-diversion","category-misc","category-photo-op"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-25","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}