{"id":577,"date":"2007-09-17T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=577"},"modified":"2015-07-12T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:08:27","slug":"memoir_a_three_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/memoir_a_three_.html","title":{"rendered":"Memoir: &#8220;A Three Dog Life&#8221; by Abigail Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would be a tear-jerker on a good day so maybe not the best choice when you&#8217;re super tired and feeling lonely anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Author&#8217;s husband suffered traumatic brain injury; basically becomes a different person.  This is her story of coming to live with that.  It&#8217;s very sad in some places.  But it&#8217;s also hopeful.  She always chooses the route of hope.  Quite touching.<\/p>\n<p>Loved her writing style.  Conversational, easy tone, concise yet not lacking in details (something I used to get compliments on in grad school &#8212; although you don&#8217;t see much evidence of it, here do you?!?! &#8212; so I tend to like that in others as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be a tear-jerker on a good day so maybe not the best choice when you&#8217;re super tired and feeling lonely anyway. Author&#8217;s husband suffered traumatic brain injury; basically becomes a different person. This is her story of coming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/memoir_a_three_.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}