{"id":59397,"date":"2026-05-26T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59397"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:27:14","slug":"sisyphus-the-cat-gets-a-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/26\/sisyphus-the-cat-gets-a-helping-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sisyphus&#8221; the Cat Gets a Helping Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cats in Turkey are deeply revered and treated as communally owned pets rather than strays to the point they&#8217;re viewed as the Soul of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>This happened at <em>Sabiha Gokcen Airport<\/em> in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Sometimes In Our Lives We All Have Pain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We All Have Sorrow<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>But If We Are Wise<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We Realize There\u2019ll Be Tomorrow<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 250px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-59397-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"446\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cat_Escalator_Airport_Istanbul_Turkey_2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cat_Escalator_Airport_Istanbul_Turkey_2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cat_Escalator_Airport_Istanbul_Turkey_2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(PS: I know my lyrics are a bit different than written &#8211; but I like mine better.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve combined a GIF w\/ an audio track from Audio.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cats in Turkey are deeply revered and treated as communally owned pets rather than strays to the point they&#8217;re viewed as the Soul of the nation. This happened at Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Sometimes In Our Lives We All Have Pain We All Have Sorrow But If We Are Wise We Realize There\u2019ll <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/26\/sisyphus-the-cat-gets-a-helping-hand\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7422,7418,7419,7421,7423,7420,7424],"class_list":["post-59397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-airport","tag-cat","tag-escalator","tag-helping-hand","tag-istanbul","tag-lean-on-me","tag-turkey","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}