
{"id":27336,"date":"2012-08-09T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2012-08-09T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:39:03","slug":"cat-baby-at-time-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/08\/09\/cat-baby-at-time-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Baby at Time Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/08\/09\/cat-baby-at-time-out\/catbabytimeout\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatBabyTimeOut.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CatBabyTimeOut\" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatBabyTimeOut.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatBabyTimeOut-113x140.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatBabyTimeOut-90x113.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatBabyTimeOut-80x100.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatBabyTimeOut-360x447.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time was, it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be football season at Chapel Hill High School unless George \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cat Baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cannada led the team onto the field at Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lions Park behind the present-day Carrboro Town Hall. The unofficial mascot and much-beloved number-one Wildcat fan (think of the movie Radio), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cat Baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d got his name from the greeting he gave as he delivered newspapers around town, hailing one and all \u00e2\u20ac\u201c President Friday down to the meekest freshman \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with the same exuberant drawn-out, <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wha-say Caaaaaat!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> He finally graduated from high school at 21 without ever cracking a book, according to local historians Richard Ellington and Dave Otto. To this day, CHHS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ers of a certain age can still be heard hailing each other with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Caaaaaat!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This photograph is from Eddie Williams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Time Out restaurant, where Cat Baby joins a host of other famous local characters and sports heroes striking the iconic pose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be football season at Chapel Hill High School unless George \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cat Baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cannada led the team onto the field at Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lions Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27343,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions\/27343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}