{"id":828,"date":"2018-07-16T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/?post_type=dmc-breeds&#038;p=828"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:31:53","slug":"exotics","status":"publish","type":"dmc-breeds","link":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/breeds\/exotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Exotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1950s, the Persian was used as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outcross\">outcross<\/a>\u00a0by some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Shorthair\">American Shorthair<\/a>\u00a0breeders. This was done in secret in order to improve their body type, and crosses were also made with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Blue\">Russian Blue<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burmese_(cat)\">Burmese<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crossbreed\">crossbreed<\/a>\u00a0look gained recognition in the show ring, but unhappy American Shorthair breeders successfully produced a new breed standard that would disqualify American Shorthairs that showed signs of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crossbreed\">crossbreeding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Exotic is similar to the Persian in many ways, including temperament and conformation, a flat nose and face with the exceptions of the short dense coat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":829,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dmc-breeds\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dmc-breeds"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dmc-breeds"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}