{"id":122,"date":"2007-07-30T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-07-30T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T16:44:54","slug":"from-death-cats-to-rent-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"From death cats to rent-a-dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexcar.com\/\">Flexcar<\/a><\/strong>, the car-sharing service? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! News<\/a><\/strong> has a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070729\/ap_on_bi_ge\/rent_a_pet\">story<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexpetz.com\/\">FlexPetz<\/a><\/strong>, a rent-a-dog* service in San Francisco. (*Oh, wait, the owner hates it when you call it that. It&#8217;s a &#8220;shared pet ownership concept.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;petz&#8221; part of the business name is not only misspelled, it&#8217;s misleading, since the service rents &#8230; er, shares &#8230; only dogs. Why didn&#8217;t they call it FlexPooch?<\/p>\n<p>When asked if they&#8217;d like to be part of FlexPetz, most cats responded, &#8220;We can&#8217;t afford it, we don&#8217;t earn income. Besides, we don&#8217;t like dogs.&#8221; Upon clarification (&#8220;No, would you like it if various people could rent you? I mean, share in your ownership?&#8221;), the cats universally replied, &#8220;<em>Nobody owns a cat<\/em>. We simply allow humans to live with us and serve us. Now feed me, pet me, stop it, give me catnip, go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard of Flexcar, the car-sharing service? Yahoo! News has a story about FlexPetz, a rent-a-dog* service in San Francisco. (*Oh, wait, the owner hates it when you call it that. It&#8217;s a &#8220;shared pet ownership concept.&#8221;) The &#8220;petz&#8221; part of the business name is not only misspelled, it&#8217;s misleading, since the service rents &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-san-francisco-bay-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}