{"id":2507,"date":"2016-08-28T01:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T01:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2016-08-31T01:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T01:49:37","slug":"book-log-35-the-one-and-only-ivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #35: The One and Only Ivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The One and Only Ivan<\/em> by Katherine Applegate [Little Shop of Stories?]<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Applegate is a ridiculously prolific author.  <\/p>\n<p>She does not shy away from the dark and the sad.  The first part of this book, while mingled with hope and levity, is mostly really sad.  It documents various animals living in a mall zoo.<\/p>\n<p>I understand this is based on the real story of a gorilla named Ivan who resided at the Atlanta Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it tugs at the heartstrings, but is well-written and engaging.  This was a book I read to my daughter in the evenings, and she loved it.  Even when it was sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate [Little Shop of Stories?] Katherine Applegate is a ridiculously prolific author. She does not shy away from the dark and the sad. The first part of this book, while mingled with hope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&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":[481,513,511],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","category-little-shop-of-stories","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}