{"id":22939,"date":"2013-10-27T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22939"},"modified":"2013-10-27T19:41:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T06:41:55","slug":"ignatz-1992-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/27\/ignatz-1992-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignatz, 1992-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/more-this-n-that\/13june2010-076a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4617\" title=\"13June2010 076a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/13June2010-076a-136x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/13June2010-076a-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/13June2010-076a-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/13June2010-076a-935x1024.jpg 935w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/13June2010-076a.jpg 1660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a>A week ago, I had to bid farewell to Ignatz, my little cat buddy of 21 years. Needless to say, after so many years he has left a huge gap.<\/p>\n<p>I first introduced Ignatz here on January 19, 2011, in\u00a0 a post titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/and-heres-the-cat\/\">&#8220;And here&#8217;s the cat.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 In that post I told the story of Ignatz&#8217;s arrival in my life, 21 years ago, and also how he got his name &#8212; I feel it&#8217;s worth a read, if you have the time.<\/p>\n<p>The second feature was in June 20, 2011: <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/in-which-i-have-been-remiss\/\">In Which I Have Been Remiss&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/and-heres-the-cat\/sony-dsc-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3224 alignright\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC04186-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I posted another photo of Ignatz earlier this year, on April 1:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/heres-another-photo-of-my-cat\/\">Here\u2019s Another Photo of My Cat\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been thinking this week about the character of Ignatz, aka Iggy, The Igster, The Germ, Pignatz (he did like his food, in fact one friend liked to say that he had &#8220;a thin &#8216;feed me&#8217; face on a huge &#8216;I&#8217;ve been fed&#8217; body&#8221; \ud83d\ude09 ) and here are a few of the words and phrases I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/and-heres-the-cat\/13june2010-074a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3225 alignright\" title=\"13June2010 074a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/13June2010-074a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>valiant<\/li>\n<li>determined<\/li>\n<li>loyal<\/li>\n<li>loving to his &#8220;peeps&#8221; (but)<\/li>\n<li>shy of strangers<\/li>\n<li>a scrapper<\/li>\n<li>long-lived (clearly!)<\/li>\n<li>cute as a button<\/li>\n<li>greedy \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/heres-another-photo-of-my-cat\/iggy1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19712\" title=\"Iggy1\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Iggy1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Iggy1-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Iggy1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Iggy1.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In fact, I would like to borrow a few words from a poem I penned for another friend, long ago, for his epitaph:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>There is no praise I could say more of you than true: <\/em><em><br \/>\ntrue heart, true friend, greatly beloved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">And greatly missed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Farewell, little cat buddy; good bye, Ignatz the Cat: haere ra, haere ra, haere ra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/27\/ignatz-1992-2013\/christmas09-070a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22946\" title=\"Christmas09 070a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Christmas09-070a-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Christmas09-070a-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Christmas09-070a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Christmas09-070a.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, I had to bid farewell to Ignatz, my little cat buddy of 21 years. Needless to say, after so many years he has left a huge gap. I first introduced Ignatz here on January 19, 2011, in\u00a0 a post titled: &#8220;And here&#8217;s the cat.&#8221;\u00a0 In that post I told the story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22939"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23020,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22939\/revisions\/23020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}