{"id":6268,"date":"2010-04-29T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:16:11","slug":"book-report-the-magic-of-scrub-holler-by-lanny-gibson-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/book-report-the-magic-of-scrub-holler-by-lanny-gibson-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Magic of Scrub Holler<\/i> by Lanny Gibson (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a short series of essays, some originally appearing in Gibson&#8217;s local newspaper, about life on a small farm in northwestern Arkansas.  Gibson deals with calving, moving rocks, the benefits and pitfalls of owning goats, and other rural concerns.  The essays are short and enjoyable, often with a wry sense of humor to them.  Not a bad little collection.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really getting into these rural accounts these days.  The pattern began with <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/book-report-growing-up-in-the-bend-by-e-m-bray-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Growing Up In The Bend<\/em><\/a> and continues with other things I&#8217;ve since added to my bookshelf.  Perhaps the inclination ties together my love for history and my new location in the rural Midwest.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0971772509\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a short series of essays, some originally appearing in Gibson&#8217;s local newspaper, about life on a small farm in northwestern Arkansas. Gibson deals with calving, moving rocks, the benefits and pitfalls of owning goats, and other rural concerns. The essays are short and enjoyable, often with a wry sense of humor to [&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-6268","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\/6268","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=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}