{"id":47144,"date":"2026-02-24T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=47144"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:28:17","slug":"happy-birthday-plywood-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/happy-birthday-plywood-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Plywood!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today our sweet boy celebrates his 10th birthday! We weren’t in the market for a cat when he showed up in our backyard – he was so scrawny it was heartbreaking. Joe was on the fence about taking him in. However, Plywood sealed the deal by jumping up in Joe’s lap. Happy birthday Plywood, so happy you’re part of our family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today our sweet boy celebrates his 10th birthday! We weren’t in the market for a cat when he showed up in our backyard – he was so scrawny it was heartbreaking. Joe was on the fence about taking him in. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176,4,2093],"tags":[3197,4622,4223],"class_list":["post-47144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-news","category-photography-2","tag-birthdays","tag-ginger-cats","tag-plywood-the-cat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-cgo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33910,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/02\/24\/happy-birthday-plywood-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":47144,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday Plywood!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"February 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today our boy turns four! 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