{"id":24602,"date":"2019-05-31T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24602"},"modified":"2019-05-27T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:32:49","slug":"book-report-life-lessons-from-your-cat-by-anthony-rubino-jr-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/book-report-life-lessons-from-your-cat-by-anthony-rubino-jr-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Life Lessons From Your Cat<\/i> by Anthony Rubino, Jr. (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/lifelessonsfromyourcat.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I rescued this book from a box of outgoing books that my beautiful wife was winnowing from her collection (from time to time, <em>she gets rid of books<\/em>, a concept that is very foreign to me).  I grabbed it because it looks like something I would browse during a football game.<\/p>\n<p>However, I browsed it after reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/book-report-how-to-read-a-poem-by-nancy-c-millett-and-helen-j-throckmorton-1966\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How To Read A Poem<\/a><\/em> as sort of a palate cleanser.<\/p>\n<p>This compact book was probably designed to be a humorous little gift for the cat lover you know (the one you always give cat-themed things because that&#8217;s her <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/the-gift-schtick\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gift schtick<\/a>).  Undoubtedly, my wife got this for similar reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But the book really isn&#8217;t that amusing.  It&#8217;s one or two sentences or sentiment per page from your cat&#8217;s point of view, but nothing really insightful and not much that&#8217;s really clever.  So I was disappointed with it, but I&#8217;m happy to not have browsed it during a football game as I&#8217;d like my forthcoming disappointment with the 2019-2020 Packers to be unalloyed.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ll put it on my read shelves, from whence my children will poach it, love it, and likely destroy it as they have <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/book-report-bad-cat-by-jim-edgar-2004\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bad Cat<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rescued this book from a box of outgoing books that my beautiful wife was winnowing from her collection (from time to time, she gets rid of books, a concept that is very foreign to me). I grabbed it because it looks like something I would browse during a football game. However, I browsed it [&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-24602","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\/24602","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=24602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24605,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602\/revisions\/24605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}