{"id":383544,"date":"2023-01-18T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=383544"},"modified":"2023-01-18T06:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:05:37","slug":"cats-or-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cats-or-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats or rats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Bob-Coldeen-pix-11-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-383545\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A feline freeloader laid kittens in our porch closet.<br \/>\nWe have three cats now, the number fluctuates.<br \/>\nWe give them water from our outdoor faucet<br \/>\nAnd put food from our kitchen on their plates.<\/p>\n<p>Living deep inside the boonies of Saipan<br \/>\nMeans making a decision\u2014cats or rats?<br \/>\nTwo foes vie for the same piece of land<br \/>\nAnd refuse to be friends in these habitats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Accept the fact the house belongs to the cats.<br \/>\nFeed them, shelter them, and keep them near<br \/>\nOr face never-ending waves of hungry rats<br \/>\nFrom the front, the sides, and worst, the rear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By BOB COLDEEN (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Bob Coldeen is a longtime TV journalist in the CNMI and is news director\/reporter of KSPN 2.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feline freeloader laid kittens in our porch closet. We have three cats now, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":331237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[208,26,1994,406],"class_list":["post-383544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bob-coldeen","tag-cnmi","tag-kspn","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}