{"id":708,"date":"2011-05-22T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2011-05-22T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T13:06:21","slug":"feline-book-review-binky-to-the-resuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/feline-book-review-binky-to-the-resuce\/","title":{"rendered":"Feline Book Review: Binky to the Resuce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01333-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Binky Reading\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01333-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01333.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHaving <a href='\/blog\/archives\/643'>recently reviewed the first instalment of Binky the Space Cat&#8217;s adventures<\/a>, I instructed my hoomins to furnish me with the sequel, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Binky-Rescue-Ashley-Spires\/dp\/1554535972\">Binky to the Rescue<\/a><\/i>, by Ashley Spires.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01335-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Binky Reading\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01335-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC01335.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style='clear: both;'>\nCat schools aren&#8217;t big on teaching hoomin language (frankly, the cat community is staggered that learning Cat language isn&#8217;t compulsory in hoomin schools), but I&#8217;ve picked up enough to follow the dramatic story here, as the fictionalised Binky has exciting adventures in outer space (what hoomins call a &#8216;garden&#8217;). The drawings are lovely and expressive, and sufficiently detailed to bear repeated scrutiny. Altogether, thoroughly entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently reviewed the first instalment of Binky the Space Cat&#8217;s adventures, I instructed my hoomins to furnish me with the sequel, Binky to the Rescue, by Ashley Spires. Cat schools aren&#8217;t big on teaching hoomin language (frankly, the cat community is staggered that learning Cat language isn&#8217;t compulsory in hoomin schools), but I&#8217;ve picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-feline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}