{"id":31,"date":"2006-07-01T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T23:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/07\/01\/all-creatures-great-and-small-by-james-herriot-1972\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T05:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T11:52:02","slug":"all-creatures-great-and-small-by-james-herriot-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"All Creatures Great and Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by James Herriot, 1972<\/p>\n<p>One day we were shopping in Barnes and Noble and, for some unknown reason,\u00c2\u00a0I thought about the PBS TV program with the British veterinarians from a number of years back.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t remember the name of the book so we asked the sales person.\u00c2\u00a0 She happened to be from England and had a picture of her dog snapped onto her blouse.\u00c2\u00a0 Her eyes lit up and she immediately led us to the the book.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed reading this book, not because I was particularly interested in animal medicine, but for the reason that it was about some truly interesting human characters.\u00c2\u00a0 It also didn&#8217;t hurt that the book was well written.\u00c2\u00a0 James Herriot is\u00c2\u00a0a very self-deprecating author and was able to find humor in almost every situation, particularly when it involved events that were embarrassing to himself.<\/p>\n<p>This book will probably never be one of the world&#8217;s greatest, but if you want an enjoyable read, to learn a bit about life in Scotland in the 1950&#8217;s, and want to chuckle, I highly recommend it.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James Herriot, 1972 One day we were shopping in Barnes and Noble and, for some unknown reason,\u00c2\u00a0I thought about the PBS TV program with the British veterinarians from a number of years back.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t remember the name of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=31\"><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":[28,25,18],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-animals","tag-humor","tag-memoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}