{"id":337,"date":"2006-06-26T02:15:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2006-06-25T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T02:06:13","slug":"animal-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Animal World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a brand new book that I&#8217;m anxious to read, but priorities for existing projects are trumping my desires so it may be a while before I get to dig into &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=lushlifecom-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0670037680%2Fqid%3D1151287422%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\"><strong><em>Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life Lessons at the World&#8217;s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&#8221; by Amy Sutherland. Who knew that California&#8217;s Moorpark Community College trained animal trainers? Well, I guess Ms. Sutherland knew. She spent a year following around the students and, I imagine, the animals. A blurb on the back says &#8220;Sutherland introduces us to the controlled chaos of a training zoo, wherein students and beats strive to maniupulate eah other.&#8221; These are the kind of books I love, narrative nonfiction &#8212; true storytelling &#8212; that give you a look inside a world you never knew existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a brand new book that I&#8217;m anxious to read, but priorities for existing projects are trumping my desires so it may be a while before I get to dig into &#8220;Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life Lessons at the World&#8217;s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers&#8221; by Amy Sutherland. Who knew that California&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Animal World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}