{"id":2787,"date":"2005-08-27T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T01:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/27\/a-reason-to-love-the-french\/"},"modified":"2005-08-27T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T01:06:18","slug":"a-reason-to-love-the-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/a-reason-to-love-the-french\/","title":{"rendered":"A reason to love the French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/book-vending-machine.jpg\" alt=\"A passer-by runs past a book vending machine in a street of Paris, Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. Parisians craving Homer, Baudelaire or Maupassant in the middle of the night can get a quick literary fix at one of the French capital's five newly-installed book vending machines. Headline on the machine reads: 'Book anytime'.\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>Only a truly civilized country would have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050819\/ap_en_ot\/book_machines\" rel=\"external\">vending&nbsp;machines&nbsp;for&nbsp;books<\/a>! Now you can instantly gratify your midnight culture cravings at this 24 hour kiosk <strong>and<\/strong> have your book handed to you by a fancy mechanical arm!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050819\/ap_en_ot\/book_machines\" rel=\"external\">Yahoo:<\/a> &#8220;Regardless of whether they fall into the category of high culture or low, all books cost a modest $2.45.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a truly civilized country would have vending&nbsp;machines&nbsp;for&nbsp;books! Now you can instantly gratify your midnight culture cravings at this 24 hour kiosk and have your book handed to you by a fancy mechanical arm! Yahoo: &#8220;Regardless of whether they fall into the category of high culture or low, all books cost a modest $2.45.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}