{"id":54,"date":"2012-08-11T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-09-11T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T21:20:14","slug":"the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2012\/08\/11\/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Racing in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-art-of-racing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9\" src=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-art-of-racing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-art-of-racing.jpg 300w, https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-art-of-racing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/the-art-of-racing-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you loved\u00a0<em>Marley and Me<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Tuesdays with Morrie<\/em>, or\u00a0<em>Old Yeller<\/em>, you\u2019ll love\u00a0<strong><em>The Art of Racing in the Rain<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I finished the book in just a few short hours and with only 1\/2 a box of tissues and I\u2019m like a stone when it comes to sappy dog books. Those of you who are more sentimental might need an entire box of Kleenex.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very well told story that engages the reader from the very first chapter. Told by the dog, this story grabs you and leads you along a life of love and loss, triumph and tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Enzo, the dog, has an amazing grasp the obvious that so many people miss. He is insightful and funny and I wish my dog was half this bright.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the dog\u2019s life he develops a Buddhist philosophy and trusts Karma to right some wrongs and anticipates his return to this planet as a human. I think he picked this up from watching too much of the weather channel and National Geographic but it might just be a dog thing that I don\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great book, a quick read and a great way to spend a few hours while on vacation. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you loved\u00a0Marley and Me,\u00a0Tuesdays with Morrie, or\u00a0Old Yeller, you\u2019ll love\u00a0The Art of Racing in the Rain. I finished the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2012\/08\/11\/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain\/\">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 Art of Racing in the Rain","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-54","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-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}