{"id":873,"date":"2003-10-24T01:50:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/10\/24\/amazon_was_sent_from_the_heavens.html"},"modified":"2003-10-24T01:50:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T01:50:52","slug":"amazon_was_sent_from_the_heavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/10\/24\/amazon_was_sent_from_the_heavens.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon was sent from the heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older friends of mine gasp at the realization that i&#8217;ve never done research without the web.  Yet, despite the web, i&#8217;ve always had one problem that has haunted me.  Sure, i can read many computer-related journals and articles, look up any book and read anyone&#8217;s college essay on most topics, but there are so many books that i just stare at and scream grep.<\/p>\n<p>Grep.<\/p>\n<p>I just want grep to work on my books.  Well, gosh darn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/10197021\/ref%3Dsib%5Fmerch%5Fgw\/103-3813858-7070263\">Amazon went and invented it<\/a>.  They were sent from the heavens i tell you.  This will revolutionize the next generation of college students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older friends of mine gasp at the realization that i&#8217;ve never done research without the web. Yet, despite the web, i&#8217;ve always had one problem that has haunted me. Sure, i can read many computer-related journals and articles, look up any book and read anyone&#8217;s college essay on most topics, but there are so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitalness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}