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This post is a part of the\u00a0April A to Z challenge<\/a>. 26 days, 26 letters and 26 short stories. Come back tomorrow for more.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a lull day at work and one I am extremely grateful for. I love my job so much that I appreciate the off days – the days when the boss was off. The phones still rang and the emails kept coming. I still had meetings to coordinate and documents to type. But it was quieter and I was making the most of it. I had my music player bleating out some of my favorite tunes. A cup of melting iced caramel macchiato sat on the side as I mentally reviewed to-do lists \u2013 personal and business. It was sure a good day. I could feel it in my bones. \u201cI need to do something to make it rock\u201d, I thought as I opened the browser and typed \u00a0\u201cpet adoptation\u201d in the search engine. I had been oscillating for too long. I needed a pet and I was going to adopt a cat this evening. \u201cDecision made\u201d I declared aloud as I navigated to the local animal rescue site. I clicked on the gallery of pets waiting to be adopted and filtered down to cats. \u201cWhy cats?\u201d I asked myself. I have no answers. I suddenly felt an urge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1259,1274],"tags":[1343,1260,697],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-a-to-z-challenge-2014","category-writings","tag-april-a-to-z-challenge-2014","tag-short-stories","tag-words"],"yoast_head":"\n