{"id":104,"date":"2011-04-22T00:52:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T07:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-04-22T00:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T07:52:34","slug":"books-a-dull-book-about-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/books-a-dull-book-about-design\/","title":{"rendered":"books: a dull book about design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"hreview-Just-terrible\" class=\"hreview\">\n<h2 class=\"summary\">Just terrible<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"2004-04-22T00:00-07:00\" class=\"dtreviewed\">Apr 22, 2004<\/abbr>  by <span class=\"reviewer vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">skierpage<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Small-Things-Considered-Perfect-Design\/dp\/1400040507\" class=\"fn url\">Small Things Considered<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"description\">\n<p><abbr class=\"rating\" title=\"1\">\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606<\/abbr> One of the lamest books I&#8217;ve ever read.  Henry Petroski rambles on about the design of supermarkets, toothbrush holders, stair treads, potato peelers and his Volvo&#8217;s cupholders, but there&#8217;s minimal historical research or thinking involved. Apart from a section on paper bag design, the trite conclusion of every chapter is the same as the book&#8217;s subtitle <i>Why there is no perfect design<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"display: none;\" class=\"version\">0.3<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/wiki\/hreview\">hReview<\/a> brought to you by the <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/code\/hreview\/creator\">hReview Creator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Things Considered is lazy and downright terrible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/books-a-dull-book-about-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}