{"id":571,"date":"2011-07-08T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/philosophicalfragments\/?p=571"},"modified":"2011-07-08T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:57:45","slug":"a-sunday-funnies-preview-i-love-cats-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/philosophicalfragments\/2011\/07\/08\/a-sunday-funnies-preview-i-love-cats-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday Funnies Preview: I Love Cats, the Musical!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>[Update: Yes, I realize this video may be fake. \u00a0But it\u2019s hilarious regardless, and the second video even more so.]<\/p>\n<p><em>I only recently began posting on weekends, with The Week in Lists on Saturdays and Sunday Funnies on, well, Sundays. \u00a0I try to post selections, too, from pieces I\u2019ve written elsewhere. \u00a0So if you\u2019ve never checked in to Philosophical Fragments on the weekends, please give it a try. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I thought I\u2019d give you a teaser of the Sunday Funnies this week. \u00a0Here\u2019s the #1 item in my Sunday Funnies list: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0\u201cI promised myself I wouldn\u2019t cry.\u201d \u00a0This woman submitted a video bio for E-Harmony in which she was absolutely overcome with her love for cats. \u00a0If you want to listen to the original, it\u2019s below, but I think you can see the hilarity too if you just jump ahead to the musical version. \u00a0Here\u2019s the original:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"eHarmony Video Bio\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mTTwcCVajAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing that wouldn\u2019t have been the most successful video bid for dates. \u00a0But you never know; some guy might find it adorable. \u00a0And he might love cats as much. \u00a0In fact, apparently a fellow cat-lover decided to make sweet music of her feline love:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CAN&#039;T HUG EVERY CAT - Songify This  (a song about loving cats)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sP4NMoJcFd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>At least we know now how those old ladies end up with 47 cats in their homes. \u00a0(HT Eric Teetsel)<\/p>\n<p><em>Check back Sunday for more funnies. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update: Yes, I realize this video may be fake. \u00a0But it\u2019s hilarious regardless, and the second video even more so.] I only recently began posting on weekends, with The Week in Lists on Saturdays and Sunday Funnies on, well, Sundays. \u00a0I try to post selections, too, from pieces I\u2019ve written elsewhere. \u00a0So if you\u2019ve never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,229,298,376],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cats","tag-i-love-cats","tag-music-video","tag-songify"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Sunday Funnies Preview: I Love Cats, the Musical! 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