{"id":299,"date":"2008-10-03T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-10-03T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:57:00","slug":"three-dog-life-by-abigail-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/10\/three-dog-life-by-abigail-thomas.html","title":{"rendered":"A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0156033232\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">A Three Dog Life<\/a> is the memoir of a woman whose husband suffered brain damage in a car\/pedestrian accident.  At first her husband&#8217;s condition improves and he&#8217;s able to come home briefly but then it declines.  He has no short term memory, can be combative and confused, and is occasionally irrational.  She sticks with him, although he&#8217;s largely institutionalized, even moving closer so that she can see him more frequently and bring him home for visits.  It sounds like their love continued.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, although she mentions it only once and briefly, their marriage was unhappy and perhaps failing prior to the accident.  She says she was &#8220;miserable&#8221; before and &#8220;happy&#8221; afterwards and feels some (natural) guilt for that.  But the book doesn&#8217;t focus on her guilt.  It focuses on her ordinary daily life with her three dogs and her warped husband, which goes to show that we can adjust to anything as normal over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Three Dog Life is the memoir of a woman whose husband suffered brain damage in a car\/pedestrian accident. At first her husband&#8217;s condition improves and he&#8217;s able to come home briefly but then it declines. He has no short term memory, can be combative and confused, and is occasionally irrational. She sticks with him, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}