{"id":831,"date":"2008-08-29T02:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T07:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=831"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:25:00","slug":"winged-cat-found-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/08\/29\/winged-cat-found-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Winged Cat Found in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/winged_cat.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"830\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/08\/29\/winged-cat-found-in-china\/winged_cat\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2008\/08\/winged_cat.jpg?fit=468%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"468,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 WENN&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"winged_cat\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Winged cat found in China&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Winged cat found in China&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2008\/08\/winged_cat.jpg?fit=468%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/winged_cat-thumb.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Winged cat found in China\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-830\" \/><\/a> via Boing Boing<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I thought of when I saw this story was an RPG video game from my childhood.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar:_The_Silver_Star\">Lunar: The Silver Star<\/a> had a wise cracking flying cat as the sidekick to the hero of the game.  I looked up the game on Wikipedia and remembered that the flying cat, Nall, was actually a baby dragon.  So, maybe the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1049610\/Ready-Tiddles-Meet-cats-sprouted-wings.html\">Chinese winged cat<\/a> will keep growing into a dragon.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Boing Boing The first thing I thought of when I saw this story was an RPG video game from my childhood. Lunar: The Silver Star had a wise cracking flying cat as the sidekick to the hero of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/08\/29\/winged-cat-found-in-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}