{"id":19674,"date":"2018-03-24T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19674"},"modified":"2018-03-23T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:00:43","slug":"book-report-stories-of-an-outstanding-cat-by-fr-michael-sequiera-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/24\/book-report-stories-of-an-outstanding-cat-by-fr-michael-sequiera-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Stories of an Outstanding Cat<\/i> by Fr. Michael Sequiera (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/storiesofanoutstandingcat.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I grabbed this from the free cart at church <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/good-book-hunting-march-18-2018-redeemer-lutheran-free-book-cart\/\" target=\"_new\">last Sunday<\/a>, and I dived right into it because it&#8217;s a short, pleasant book written by a retired priest who adopts a stray cat.<\/p>\n<p>The vignettes are small&#8211;a page or two&#8211;and the stories simple, but they&#8217;re amusing, especially if you&#8217;re familiar with cats.  The priest anthromorphizes the cat a bit, having conversations with it in English.  The cat&#8217;s a bit of a biter&#8211;the priest says it&#8217;s to punish the priest for not doing what the cat wants.  I currently have a biter, so I empathize.<\/p>\n<p>It was a quick read, upbeat and, yes, full of exclamation points.  This is a signed copy, and I wonder how it got from Connecticut to a free book cart in Springfield so quickly.  Even <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/book-report-five-themes-of-today-by-changde-chen-2001\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Five Themes of Today<\/em><\/a> took years, but it started in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1532347707&#038;asins=1532347707&#038;linkId=b5d2f0e3ad2a5b1a47027f07fa465732&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066C0&#038;bg_color=FFFFFF\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grabbed this from the free cart at church last Sunday, and I dived right into it because it&#8217;s a short, pleasant book written by a retired priest who adopts a stray cat. The vignettes are small&#8211;a page or two&#8211;and the stories simple, but they&#8217;re amusing, especially if you&#8217;re familiar with cats. The priest anthromorphizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19675,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions\/19675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}