{"id":49,"date":"2008-02-13T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-02-13T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T10:46:00","slug":"good-dog-stay-anna-quindlen-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2008\/02\/good-dog-stay-anna-quindlen-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Dog. Stay. &#8211; Anna Quindlen, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of &quot;it&#8217;s just a jump on the <i>Marley &#038; Me<\/i> bandwagon,&quot; and it&#8217;s true that at a skimpy 82 pages for $14.95, this is basically an essay posing as a book. But on the other hand, Quindlen writes rings around Grogan and compresses almost all the emotion in a fraction of the space. A good third of the book is cute dog photos, which is a little confusing because some of them do seem to be of her two dogs (Beau and Bea), but taken by the same professional pet photographer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandajones.com\/\">Amanda Jones<\/a>) who did many of the unrelated dogs. (Alas, my favorite (p. 6, a Bichon Frise whose eyes are totally concealed by fur) isn&#8217;t on the website). One hopes this wasn&#8217;t some kind of kickback. But no matter, if you love dogs, the book&#8217;s a winner. (My favorite dog book ever ever is still Elizabeth Marshall Thomas&#8217; <i>The Social Life of Dogs<\/i>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of &quot;it&#8217;s just a jump on the Marley &#038; Me bandwagon,&quot; and it&#8217;s true that at a skimpy 82 pages for $14.95, this is basically an essay posing as a book. But on the other hand, Quindlen writes rings around Grogan and compresses almost all the emotion in a fraction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}