{"id":2200,"date":"2008-10-24T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T23:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petpundit.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-10-24T19:06:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T23:06:33","slug":"welcome-to-the-pet-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/welcome-to-the-pet-pundit\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Pet Pundit\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have visited the Pet Pundit\u00ae site\u00a0before,\u00a0this new site probably comes as a surprise.\u00a0I have decided to change everything to make the site easier to access and more relevant to your needs. I also wanted a venue where you could comment and post your thoughts as well.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t much about me, I have\u00a0worked in the animal welfare field for more than 20 years, both for\u00a0local animal shelters and\u00a0a national animal welfare\u00a0organization.\u00a0 I combine those years working in the trenches helping dogs, cats, and other pets\u00a0with a background in journalism to present helpful information on animal issues and concerns. I currently write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/life\/columnists\/cathy_m._rosenthal\/cathy_rosenthal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q&amp;A pets column\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mysanantonio.com\/weblogs\/animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> for the San Antonio Express-News,\u00a0and write for several national animal magazines.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u00a0be reached via email at <a href=\"mailto:cathy@petpundit.com\">cathy@petpundit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have visited the Pet Pundit\u00ae site\u00a0before,\u00a0this new site probably comes as a surprise.\u00a0I have decided to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[38,39,40,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}