{"id":78764,"date":"2017-03-14T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78764"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:25:22","slug":"letter-cat-blanket-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78764","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Cat Blanket Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70195\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-150x109.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen\u00a0years ago there was an ad in the newspaper asking for people willing to knit or\u00a0crochet blankets for cats in shelters. Sue had been making blankets for years and needed both blanket makers and yarn donations.<\/p>\n<p>I like to crochet and am a cat lover so I answered the ad. Thanks to many generous yarn donations and blanket makers more than 10,000 blankets have been\u00a0made for shelter cats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCat Blanket Sue\u201d the nickname we gave her, passed away recently.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to help keep Sue\u2019s mission going, either by making blankets or\u00a0donating yarn contact me at 315.687.3691 (leave a message, and I\u2019ll back to you). Yarn can also be dropped off at Wanderer\u2019s Rest Route 5 Canastota.<\/p>\n<p>RIP \u201cCat Blanket\u201d Sue\u2026Meow Meow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Trina Kendall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor: Fifteen\u00a0years ago there was an ad in the newspaper asking for people willing to knit or\u00a0crochet blankets for cats in shelters. Sue had been making blankets for years and needed both blanket makers and yarn donations. I like to crochet and am a cat lover so I answered the ad. Thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}