{"id":3440,"date":"2017-03-10T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2018-01-14T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T20:57:02","slug":"the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Racing in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from&nbsp;<\/em><em>Judy Kennedy, March 10, 2017:<\/em><br \/>\nHad a few days between book club reads this month &#8212; and picked up a book from my pile that I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for years and just haven&#8217;t gotten to it &#8212; <em><strong>THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN<\/strong><\/em> by Garth Stein, which spent months and months on the bestseller list when it first came out.&nbsp; No wonder every body has been recommending it to me &#8212; what a jewel!&nbsp;&nbsp; Narrated by Enso the dog strictly from his point of view and perception, it&#8217;s&nbsp; an amazing story of a life with all its highs and lows and mis-steps. &nbsp;&nbsp;And, once you reach the end (with a knot in your gut and tears of happiness in your eyes), you just know it has to be the truth. &nbsp;<em>From the editor:<\/em> &nbsp;Judy adds, &#8220;Don&#8217;t wait another second&#8230; &nbsp;I&#8217;ve already put it right up there in my Top Ten best reads &#8212; ever!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from&nbsp;Judy Kennedy, March 10, 2017: Had a few days between book club reads this month &#8212; and picked up a book from my pile that I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for years and just haven&#8217;t gotten to it &#8212; THE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[25072,25027],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads","tag-garth-stein","tag-judy-kennedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}