{"id":6,"date":"2006-02-03T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ltmemphis.org\/susarlablog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-02-03T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T06:41:30","slug":"the-world-is-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"The world is flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another book review&#8230;&#8221;The world is flat&#8221; by Thomas L. Friedman.<br \/>\nHis aim, in his new book, The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. The world isn&#8217;t going to be flat, it is flat, which gives Friedman&#8217;s breathless narrative much of its urgency, and which also saves it from the Epcot-style polyester sheen that futurists&#8211;the optimistic ones at least&#8211;are inevitably prey to.<\/p>\n<p>I manged to get my hands on a audio version of this book and i have throughly enjoyed every chapter of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another book review&#8230;&#8221;The world is flat&#8221; by Thomas L. Friedman. His aim, in his new book, The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susarla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}