{"id":385,"date":"2011-03-14T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stellaandcupcake.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:22:14","slug":"petfinders-adopt-the-internet-day-march-15-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Petfinder&#8217;s Adopt The Internet Day March 15, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petfinder.com\/info\/adopt-the-internet\">Petfinder&#8217;s<\/a> 15th birthday, Stella &amp; Cupcake has pledged to spread the word online about adoptable pets today, March 15, 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a chance to find your best friend! \u00e2\u2122\u00a5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellaandcupcake.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/petfinder-dog-cat-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-384\" title=\"petfinder dog-cat-banner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellaandcupcake.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/petfinder-dog-cat-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/petfinder-dog-cat-banner.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/petfinder-dog-cat-banner-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;For me, the journey began one morning with browsing on Petfinder&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Remembering my fondness for a certain kitty named Tinkster (a friend&#8217;s Siamese cat with a gentle and lovely purrsonality), I could easily recall the joy Tinkster had brought into my life&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 I fell in love with all those pretty and handsome faces on Petfinder and was also moved to tears as I read the nearly endless kitty profiles and how they came to be at their particular shelter.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted to rescue all of them!\u00c2\u00a0 That day, I was resolved to make a difference in even one creature&#8217;s life.\u00c2\u00a0 Mohandas Ghandi&#8217;s words still resonate loudly with me, &#8220;be the change you want to see in the world.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Petfinder and BARC Shelter for bringing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellaandcupcake.com\/blog\/?page_id=23\">Captain Smith a.k.a. Captain Neo<\/a> into our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 As much as he needed us, we needed him more.<\/p>\n<p>*More than 320,000 pets are waiting for homes on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petfinder.com\/info\/adopt-the-internet\">Petfinder.com<\/a>. Help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petfinder.com\/info\/adopt-the-internet\">Petfinder Adopt the Internet<\/a> to find forever  homes for as many as possible!\u00c2\u00a0 Please continue to spread the word about adoptable shelter pets today and always!<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/authors\/m\/mohandas_gandhi_2.html#ixzz1GcaqHjVe\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Petfinder&#8217;s 15th birthday, Stella &amp; Cupcake has pledged to spread the word online about adoptable pets today, March 15, 2011&#8230; Here&#8217;s a chance to find your best friend! \u00e2\u2122\u00a5 &#8230;For me, the journey began one morning with browsing on Petfinder&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Remembering my fondness for a certain kitty named Tinkster (a friend&#8217;s Siamese &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?p=385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petfinder&#8217;s Adopt The Internet Day March 15, 2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[104,109,113,106,107,112,105,110,103,111,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}