{"id":299,"date":"2014-01-27T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/27\/the-dog-who-came-in-from-the-cold\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:32","slug":"the-dog-who-came-in-from-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/the-dog-who-came-in-from-the-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Who Came in from the Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">This was definitely one of my 2013 books that ended up in the <i>good <\/i>pile. It is a wonderful book, but then most of what Alexander McCall Smith writes&nbsp; is wonderful. There is a vibrant optimism that runs like a red thread  through all of his books, and makes the reader believe that the world is  not so bad after all, that everything will work out eventually and that  people are actually quite nice. In this book &#8211; the second in a series &#8211;  there is a beautiful collection of characters (including, of course,  the dog, Freddie de la Hay). The story progresses, dipping first into  one story and then into the next, pulling out small connecting threads  and tying small knots. The humour is delightful, the observations &#8211; both  of people and their surroundings &#8211; exceptionally accurate. Definitely a  book to recommend. Photo source: <a data-ved=\"0CAQQjB0\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_McCall_Smith\"><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">en.wikipedia.org<\/span><\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-s0RWaAkjCBg\/UuMBNDgOvUI\/AAAAAAAABJE\/oI1zYkTb06Y\/s1600\/AlexanderMcCallSmith.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-s0RWaAkjCBg\/UuMBNDgOvUI\/AAAAAAAABJE\/oI1zYkTb06Y\/s1600\/AlexanderMcCallSmith.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was definitely one of my 2013 books that ended up in the good pile. It is a wonderful book, but then most of what Alexander McCall Smith writes&nbsp; is wonderful. There is a vibrant optimism that runs like a red thread through all of his books, and makes the reader believe that the world &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/the-dog-who-came-in-from-the-cold\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}