{"id":1400,"date":"2011-09-19T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100wordson.wordpress.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2011-09-19T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:00:11","slug":"book-review-the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain-by-garth-stein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most basic of stories, a family drama, told from the point of view of the most biased observer- the family dog. It is a really well done story, and the short sentences and chapters make it a very quick read, a nice way to spend a rainy Seattle afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>My only issue with the book (and this may be a \u201cme\u201d issue, as I seem to have it often) is the final chapter, which was more of an epilogue. It was too much a perfect dream ending to a book that had been very based in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most basic of stories, a family drama, told from the point of view of the most biased observer- the family dog. It is a really well done story, and the short sentences and chapters make it a very quick read, a nice way to spend a rainy Seattle afternoon. My only issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,69],"tags":[206,266,530],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-books","category-garth-stein","category-the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain","tag-art-of-racing-in-the-rain","tag-book-review","tag-garth-stein-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}