{"id":6631,"date":"2010-05-26T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2010-05-04T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:26:48","slug":"re-reads-all-creatures-great-and-small-by-james-herriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/re-reads-all-creatures-great-and-small-by-james-herriot\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-reads: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m going to cheat a little. All Creatures Great and Small<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by James Herriot would be my choice, but\u00a0I love all four in the “All Creatures” series.<\/p>\n

The story\u00a0begins with\u00a0the author’s arrival\u00a0in Yorkshire during the Depression when veterinary jobs were scarce. A city boy, James has to quickly learn how to care for horses and cows in very primitive conditions.<\/p>\n

He soon\u00a0learns to love the beauty of the Dales and his eccentric clients. His tales of caring for beloved pets as well as farm animals can be heartwrenching as the patient doesn’t always survive.<\/p>\n

There is plenty of humor\u00a0in his hilarious descriptions of the Yorkshire dialect,\u00a0way of life,\u00a0and diet, as well as his volatile boss Siegfried and Siegfried’s\u00a0irresponsible yet charming brother Tristan.<\/p>\n

Not only are the books laugh-out-loud funny but you come to know\u00a0the village of Darrowby,\u00a0James, Siegfried and Tristan so well that you never want to leave the little world that Herriot has created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to cheat a little. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot would be my choice, but\u00a0I love all four in the “All Creatures” series. The story\u00a0begins with\u00a0the author’s arrival\u00a0in Yorkshire during the Depression when veterinary jobs were scarce. A city boy, James has to quickly learn how[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[799,538,80,1183,343,1182,1181,1180],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-animals","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-historical","tag-pets","tag-rural-life","tag-veternarians","tag-vets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1IX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}