{"id":88,"date":"2005-09-23T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-10-05T17:47:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T00:47:25","slug":"fridays-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/fridays-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Mercury News mentioned Kepler&#8217;s in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/opinion\/12720791.htm\">editorial<\/a> arguing for an internet tax. The absence of such a tax allows people to buy from online stores such as, ahem, Amazon without contributing to their local economies. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider the recent closure of Kepler&#8217;s, Menlo Park&#8217;s storied bookseller: It&#8217;s clear that the 8.25 percent price premium that shoppers had to pay when buying books there instead of online didn&#8217;t help it stay competitive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paloaltoonline.com\/weekly\/morgue\/2005\/2005_09_23.reader23.shtml\">A letter to the editor<\/a> in Friday&#8217;s Palo Alto Weekly rightly suggests that Kepler&#8217;s should name someone with a purely literary interest to its board of directors. <\/p>\n<p>Salman Rushdie&#8217;s appearance, originally scheduled for October 3 at Kepler&#8217;s, has been moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksinc.net\">Books Inc.<\/a> in Mountain View on Castro Street. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Mercury News mentioned Kepler&#8217;s in an editorial arguing for an internet tax. The absence of such a tax allows people to buy from online stores such as, ahem, Amazon without contributing to their local economies. Consider the recent closure of Kepler&#8217;s, Menlo Park&#8217;s storied bookseller: It&#8217;s clear that the 8.25 percent price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}