{"id":39049,"date":"2020-03-23T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39049"},"modified":"2020-03-23T23:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:32:01","slug":"behaviour-cats-and-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/behaviour-cats-and-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Behaviour: cats and cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about animal behaviour: the tutor makes an observation connected with a long-ago memory.<\/h2>\n<p>\nMany years ago I overheard someone discussing various animals&#8217; behaviour as they would cross the highway.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cats, if they see a car coming, always turn around and run back the way they came,&#8221; they related.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis morning, from a window, I noticed a large cat crossing the road. Three-quarters across, it heard a &#8220;toot&#8221; from a slow-moving car.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cat is very large, and so its reversal was dramatic. It easily made it back; the car&#8217;s driver was moving gently so as to give it time. The point is that the cat, only a few feet from the side it had wanted to go, turned back and re-crossed to get out of the car&#8217;s way. It happened just as the person had described, so many years ago.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.  \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about animal behaviour: the tutor makes an observation connected with a long-ago memory. Many years ago I overheard someone discussing various animals&#8217; behaviour as they would cross the highway. &#8220;Cats, if they see a car coming, always turn around &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/behaviour-cats-and-cars\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behaviour: cats and cars<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39051,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049\/revisions\/39051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}