{"id":886282,"date":"2026-01-19T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/why-do-cats-lick-you-an-expert-explains\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:27:21","slug":"why-do-cats-lick-you-an-expert-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/why-do-cats-lick-you-an-expert-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do cats lick you? An expert explains."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Grooming is only one way cats say, &#8220;I love you.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post Why do cats lick you? An expert explains. appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/why-cats-lick-you\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Sarah Durn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Grooming is only one way cats say, &#8220;I love you.\u201d The post Why do cats lick you? An expert explains. appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;Read MoreSarah Durn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,684,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-886282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-expert","8":"category-explains","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}