{"id":402,"date":"2011-08-09T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=402"},"modified":"2011-10-20T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:56:15","slug":"noodles-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Noodles to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon may be bad news for traditional book stores. Unless the internet learns better to reproduce the process of browsing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe freedom to sample books where we like rather than a given selection, the ability to feel a book&#8217;s weight and construction as well as sample its content, the ability to browse an entire shelf at a glance, rather than browsing one link at a time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe&#8217;ll lose something valuable as Amazon drives more than Borders out of business.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to music or video sales, I regret nothing.  Through Amazon, we recently got two videos.  We might still get a replacement copy of <em>The Incredibles<\/em> from Best Buy without much trouble, but <em>Tampopo<\/em> is tough to find, and some shows I&#8217;ve treasured are rare still..  We&#8217;re watching it now, and it&#8217;s still wonderful.  Volume makes rarer titles economical for Amazon in a way that even large chains can&#8217;t duplicate, and I&#8217;m grateful to be able to get titles out of the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only I could get good, genuine ramen with the same ease.  Like everyone else, I watch <em>Tampopo<\/em> and want ramen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon may be bad news for traditional book stores. Unless the internet learns better to reproduce the process of browsing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe freedom to sample books where we like rather than a given selection, the ability to feel a book&#8217;s weight and construction as well as sample its content, the ability to browse an entire shelf at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}