{"id":2778,"date":"2003-08-31T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:10:29","slug":"black-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2778","title":{"rendered":"Black cats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bad kittens &#8211; Elizabeth Coatsworth (31 May 31 1893 &#8211; 31 August 1986)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/BadKittens2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 2003<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You may call, you may call<br>But the little black cats won&#8217;t hear you at all<br>The little black cats are ma-ddened<br>By the bright green light of the moon<br>They are whirling and running and hiding<br>They are wild who once were so confiding<br>They are crazed when the moon is riding<br>You will not catch the kittens soon.<br>They care not for saucers of milk,<br>They think not of pillows of silk,<br>Your softest, crooningest call<br>Is less than the buzzing of flies.<br>They are seeing more than you see,<br>They are hearing more than you hear,<br>And out of the darkness they peer<br>With a goblin light in their eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Elizabeth Coatsworth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of the music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 2003)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>\u00a0software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad kittens &#8211; Elizabeth Coatsworth (31 May 31 1893 &#8211; 31 August 1986) You may call, you may callBut the little black cats won&#8217;t hear you at allThe little black cats are ma-ddenedBy the bright green light of the moonThey are whirling and running and hidingThey are wild who once were so confidingThey are crazed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}