{"product_id":"the-good-good-pig-the-extraordinary-life-of-christopher-hogwood","title":"The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am. from The Good Good Pig  A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles  Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet  later named Christopher Hogwood  would not only survive but flourishand she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly  Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family and home.  The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory  from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire  where his boundless zest for life and his large  loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly) peaceable kingdom. At first  his domain included only Sys cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie  Tess. Then the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his unauthorized jaunts  the little girls next door started giving him warm  soapy baths  and the villagers brought him delicious leftovers. His intelligence and fame increased along with his girth. He was featured in USA Today and on several National Public Radio environmental programs. On election day  some voters even wrote in Christophers name on their ballots.  But as this enchanting book describes  Christopher Hogwoods influence extended far beyond celebrity; for he was  as a friend said  a great big Buddha master. Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a piglessons about self-acceptance  the meaning of family  the value of community  and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth. The Good Good Pig provides proof that with love  almost anything is possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945267982389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345481372","price":28.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345481375.jpg?v=1769880616","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-good-good-pig-the-extraordinary-life-of-christopher-hogwood","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}