{"id":557,"date":"2015-05-10T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2015-05-10T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T08:59:23","slug":"an-alchemist-in-paris-the-cafe-des-chats-bastille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/an-alchemist-in-paris-the-cafe-des-chats-bastille\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alchemist in Paris &#8211; the Caf\u00e9 Des Chats Bastille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just round the corner from my hotel was a cat cafe. Yes, really. The place is crammed with custom feline furniture and moggy perches but look where this one has plonked himself. Sorry for poor picture quality due to reflections in the window but I think you get the idea. \u202a#\u200eleprocrastichat\u202c \u202a#\u200enottakingreservationsatthemoment\u202c<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_558\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558\" title=\"Le Procrastichat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0576.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0576-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Procrastichat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So having sneaked a photo at the cat cafe I had to come in. There are loads of cats &#8211; apparently 12 in total but three lined up by me. It is adorable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_560\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0577.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-560\" title=\"Inside the Cat Cafe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0577.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0577-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Cat Cafe<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_561\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-561\" title=\"More Inside the Cat Cafe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0579.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0579-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More Inside the Cat Cafe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The only problem &#8211; how to stop the blighters from eating my food (as firmly instructed) while observing the equally firm instruction to &#8220;not make the cats do anything they don&#8217;t want to&#8221;. \u00a0An unsolvable conundrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just round the corner from my hotel was a cat cafe. Yes, really. The place is crammed with custom feline &#8230; <br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/an-alchemist-in-paris-the-cafe-des-chats-bastille\/\">keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[99,85],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cat-cafe","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}