{"id":2801,"date":"2007-05-11T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/i-know-i-mentioned-this-before-but-i-cant-seem-to-find-it\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T16:25:00","slug":"i-know-i-mentioned-this-before-but-i-cant-seem-to-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/i-know-i-mentioned-this-before-but-i-cant-seem-to-find-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I know I mentioned this before, but I can&apos;t seem to find it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/catbus.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--cut=\"Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops\"-->Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week. The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings &#8211; he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop.<\/p>\n<p>The cat was nicknamed Macavity after the mystery cat in T.S Elliot&apos;s poem. He gets on the bus in front of a row of 1950s semi-detached houses and jumps off at a row of shops down the road which include a fish and chip shop. Driver Bill Khunkhun, 49, who first saw the cat jumping from the bus in January, said: &#8220;It is really odd, the first time I saw the cat jumping off the bus with a group of passengers. I hadn&apos;t seen it get on which was a bit confusing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next day I pulled up on Churchill Road to let a couple of passengers on. As soon as I opened the doors the cat ran towards the bus, jumped on and ran under one of the seats, I don&apos;t think any of the passengers noticed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I had seen it jump off the day before I carried on driving and sure enough when I stopped just down the road he jumped off &#8211; I don&apos;t know why he would catch the bus but he seems to like it. I told some of the other drivers on this route and they have seen him too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since January, when the cat first caught the bus he has done it two or three times a week and always gets on and off at the same stops. Passenger, Paul Brennan, 19, who catches the 331 to work, said: &#8220;I first noticed the cat a few weeks ago. At first I thought it had been accompanied by its owner but after the first stop it became quite clear he was on his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He sat at the front of the bus, waited patiently for the next stop and then got off. It was was quite strange at first but now it just seems normal. I suppose he is the perfect passenger really &#8211; he sits quietly, minds his own business and then gets off.&#8221; <!--\/cut--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week. The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings &#8211; he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/i-know-i-mentioned-this-before-but-i-cant-seem-to-find-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I know I mentioned this before, but I can&apos;t seem to find it&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[425,139],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lolcat","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}