{"id":270,"date":"2009-01-17T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2015-06-05T22:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T04:32:27","slug":"dewey-the-small-town-library-cat-who-touched-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, 2008, Grand Central Publishing, New York<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice story, but is probably more interesting because of the story of the author and small-town Midwestern America.\u00c2\u00a0 Dewey was obviously a special cat, but it is difficult to capture that in a book other than saying multiple times how special he was.\u00c2\u00a0 I was impressed by the Vicki&#8217;s life, however, and how she overcame a bad marriage to an alcoholic, multiple deaths in her family in a short period of time, terrible medical problems, poverty, and raising a girl by herself as a single mother.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite these cards stacked against her, she managed to get a college degree and graduate summa cum laude.\u00c2\u00a0 She then went on to make a significant impact on the library where she worked and the town she lived in.\u00c2\u00a0 These are noteworthy accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>The cat part of the story was nice but I didn&#8217;t quite get how special the cat was.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe having three cats ourselves as well as some pretty special ones previously has colored my thinking.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, 2008, Grand Central Publishing, New York This is a nice story, but is probably more interesting because of the story of the author and small-town Midwestern America.\u00c2\u00a0 Dewey was obviously a special cat, but <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=270\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,18,16],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-animals","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}