{"id":307,"date":"2007-05-14T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2007-07-29T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T19:55:12","slug":"3-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"3 new books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been meaning to read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi\/dp\/0060920432\">Flow<\/a><\/em> for a while now. While at Borders, I also noticed <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elegant-Solution-Toyotas-Mastering-Innovation\/dp\/0743290178\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3_s9_rk\/102-0064512-5151339?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;s9r=8a5801be10981b400110a3c71aeb0167&amp;itemPosition=3&amp;qid=1179117790&amp;sr=1-3\">The Elegant Solution<\/a><\/em> which has recently been a topic of discussion among my peers at work. Of course, in bookshops I always go first to the computer section, where I can judge if the store is any good. If it&#8217;s all &#8220;Office for Dummies&#8221; and &#8220;Teach yourself ASP.NET&#8221; then I know not to return except in emergencies. If on the other hand, they stock things like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Haskell-School-Expression-Functional-Programming\/dp\/0521644089\/ref=sr_1_4\/102-0064512-5151339?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1179117811&amp;sr=1-4\">The Haskell School of Expression<\/a><\/em> then I know they are doing something right. I&#8217;m happy to report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=710+S+Sepulveda+Blvd,+El+Segundo,+California+90245,+USA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=33.904687,-118.396139&amp;spn=0.053499,0.084715&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\">Borders<\/a> did stock it, and now I have it. I&#8217;ll be going back there in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been meaning to read Flow for a while now. While at Borders, I also noticed The Elegant Solution which has recently been a topic of discussion among my peers at work. Of course, in bookshops I always go first to the computer section, where I can judge if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}