{"id":22,"date":"2013-12-11T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/?p=22"},"modified":"2017-09-11T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:55:46","slug":"the-call-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2013\/12\/11\/the-call-of-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-call-of-the-wild.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23\" src=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-call-of-the-wild.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-call-of-the-wild.jpg 203w, https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-call-of-the-wild-65x96.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>I first read this classic when I was in 5th grade.\u00a0 It was a picture book and I took in every image and every word.\u00a0 It was a book that took me a to wild and wonderful wilderness.\u00a0 It helped me fall in love with dogs, and over the years I\u2019ve looked for a little bit of Buck in every dog I\u2019ve ever owned (though none of them were as wonderful as Buck).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read a lot of books since 5th grade, and I would venture to say that my favorite chapter in all of literature occurs in this book.\u00a0 Chapter VI rivals any great story ever written.\u00a0 I honestly get a little teary when I read this chapter.\u00a0 Buck proves his loyalty and love for a man who treats him with affection and trust.<\/p>\n<p>Oh that every relationship was so pure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first read this classic when I was in 5th grade.\u00a0 It was a picture book and I took in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2013\/12\/11\/the-call-of-the-wild\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Call of the Wild","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aBd1-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}