{"id":1390,"date":"2012-07-17T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:30:00","slug":"making-rounds-with-oscar-the-extraordinary-gift-of-an-ordinary-cat-by-david-dosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Making Rounds with Oscar : the Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   alignleft wp-image-1394\" title=\"Making Rounds with Oscar\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Making-Rounds-with-Oscar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/>\n<p>Dosa, a geriatrician working at a nursing home, at first scoffs\u00a0upon hearing\u00a0that Oscar, the resident cat,\u00a0knows when a patient at the nursing home is going to die.\u00a0 Then he starts observing that the cat unerringly heads\u00a0to the room of a dying patient and stays there, providing company and comfort to both patient and family members.\u00a0 However long the passing takes, Oscar stays.\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0Dosa begins to\u00a0gather information from families of patients who have died at the nursing home, and eventually he becomes a true believer.\u00a0 It is clear that Oscar somehow knows when death is near, and he won&#8217;t let anyone in his nursing home die alone.\u00a0 A touching, true story about an amazing cat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dosa, a geriatrician working at a nursing home, at first scoffs\u00a0upon hearing\u00a0that Oscar, the resident cat,\u00a0knows when a patient at the nursing home is going to die.\u00a0 Then he starts observing that the cat unerringly heads\u00a0to the room of a dying patient and stays there, providing company and comfort to both patient and family members.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Rounds with Oscar : the Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}