{"id":779,"date":"2013-04-02T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=779"},"modified":"2013-04-02T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:47:23","slug":"this-ought-to-help-barnes-and-nobles-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"This Ought To Help Barnes and Noble&#8217;s Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-782\" alt=\"B&amp;N\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BN.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"199\" \/>Amazon may seem like an unstoppable juggernaut, and many partisans for their rival, the (comparatively) scrappy Barnes and Noble have no doubt despaired of late, given Amazon&#8217;s willingness to forgo profits in order to deny them to others.\u00a0 But the latest action by a merry band called &#8220;Morality in Media&#8221; should give them a leg up.\u00a0 This group has declared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/04\/02\/175987431\/book-news-american-library-association-barnes-noble-called-facilitators-of-porn\">Barnes and Noble, along with American Library Association, to be &#8220;facilitators of porn&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 Presumably, this should provide Barnes and Noble (along with libraries, I suppose) with throngs of new customers.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I would like to point out that, rather than that image of B&amp;N, I could have used an image that neatly encapsulated both librarians and porn, which would have no doubt driven some nice traffic my way, but I held off.\u00a0 This is a <em>classy<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon may seem like an unstoppable juggernaut, and many partisans for their rival, the (comparatively) scrappy Barnes and Noble have no doubt despaired of late, given Amazon&#8217;s willingness to forgo profits in order to deny them to others.\u00a0 But the latest action by a merry band called &#8220;Morality in Media&#8221; should give them a leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}