{"id":958,"date":"2009-07-28T22:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/?p=958"},"modified":"2009-12-24T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:23:22","slug":"the-cat-who-covered-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/the-cat-who-covered-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat Who Covered the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i>The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and her Foreign Correspondent<\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>by Christopher S. Wren<\/b><br \/>\n[cover name=thecatwhocoveredtheworld]<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wren did not have good luck with pets when he was young, so he wasn&#8217;t exactly eager when one of his friends asked if he would be willing to adopt a kitten. However, she apparently knew Christopher well enough to know how to bribe him &#8211; she offered him a bottle of Scotch to take the kitten. I&#8217;m not really into cats <em>or<\/em> Scotch, but I really enjoyed this book anyway.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Cat Who Covered the World<\/i> is the story of this cat, named Henrietta by Christopher&#8217;s children. She&#8217;s an ordinary tabby cat, but since Christopher Wren is a foreign correspondent for the <i>New York Times<\/i>, she gets to travel the world and be a cat around all kinds of interesting people. She disappears in Egypt for a while. She makes friends with Nobel Peace Prize winner <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrei_Sakharov\">Andrei Sakharov<\/a>, who was also the guy who helped the Soviet Union develop the nuclear bomb. She kills a mouse and gives it to the ambassador of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>This is sort of like a story about an ordinary person who gets caught up in extraordinary events, but in this case, the ordinary person is a cat. Usually. Sometimes it&#8217;s the author, like when he has to help his friend Kif sneak in to rescue a cat in the middle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran_hostage_crisis\">Iran hostage crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[starratingmulti id=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Where to Find It<\/h3>\n<p>[librarylist]<br \/>\n[librarydate]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and her Foreign Correspondent <\/p>\n<p>by Christopher S. Wren [cover name=thecatwhocoveredtheworld]<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wren did not have good luck with pets when he was young, so he wasn&#8217;t exactly eager when one of his friends asked if he would be willing to adopt a kitten. However, she [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,69],"tags":[154,30,57,121,39,190,95],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-nonfiction","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-celebrities","tag-events","tag-real-people","tag-travel","tag-writers","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}