{"id":224,"date":"2006-02-12T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/12\/224\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T08:03:04","slug":"224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/12\/224\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"image223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/the_curious_incident_of_the_dog_in_the_night.jpg\" \/>I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099450259\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. I say finished; I actually mean I read it! It only took 3 hours! I read some extracts from it a fwe years ago and absolutley hated it. It seemed to me to be poor writing. I know the story is told by a boy with <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Asperger syndrome\" title=\"Asperger syndrome\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asperger%20syndrome\" rel=\"tag\">Asperger syndrome<\/a> but to be honest it felt like that was a secondary excuse for poor writing. However, my wife bought it for me last christmas so I added it to my &#8220;to read&#8221; pile. Needless to say, I read it and I loved it. It is very simple but it is also very charming and funny. Will go striaght to <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/thehappypooch.com\/training-behavior\/\"><font color=\"#555555\">The Happy Pooch<\/font><\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Asperger syndrome\" title=\"Asperger syndrome\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asperger%20syndrome\">Asperger syndrome<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time\" title=\"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Curious%20Incident%20of%20the%20Dog%20in%20the%20Night-time\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mark Haddon\" title=\"Mark Haddon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark%20Haddon\">Mark Haddon<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\" title=\"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Curious%20Incident%20of%20the%20Dog%20in%20the%20Night-Time\" rel=\"tag\" >The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mark Haddon\" title=\"Mark Haddon\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mark%20Haddon\" rel=\"tag\" >Mark Haddon<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Asperger syndrome\" title=\"Asperger syndrome\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Asperger%20syndrome\" rel=\"tag\" >Asperger syndrome<\/a><br\/>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/dirty-harry-potter-harry-callahan-and-the-deathly-hallows\/\" title=\"Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.\">Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/14\/the-man-in-black-fled-across-the-desert-and-the-gunslinger-followed\/\" title=\"The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed\">The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/his-dark-materials\/\" title=\"His Dark Materials\">His Dark Materials<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/26\/gods-behaving-badly-tv\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV\">Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/gods-behaving-badly-3\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly\">Gods Behaving Badly<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time\u00a0on Thursday. I say finished; I actually mean I read it! It only took 3 hours! I read some extracts from it a fwe years ago and absolutley hated it. It seemed to me to be poor writing. I know the story is told &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/12\/224\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[229,226],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-books","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/swn4r-224","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}