{"id":1569,"date":"2007-11-25T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-11-26T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T07:21:23","slug":"who_says_amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Who Says Amazon Has No Sense Of Humor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m building a big-ass Amazon Wish List of books for Biggest Guy (for when he gets far enough through Basic Training to read them), and other than the great list on counterinsurgency on <a href=\"http:\/\/abumuqawama.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/great-counterinsurgency-reading-list.html\" target=\"browser\">Abu Muquama&#8217;s site<\/a>, I&#8217;m always looking for new stuff. So when <a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/19\/soviet-casualties-in-the-soviet-afghan-war-underestimated\/\" target=\"browser\">Kings of War<\/a> linked to some interesting reading on the Soviet experience in Afghanistan, I clicked through to the Amazon UK link for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bear-Went-Over-Mountain-Afghanistan\/dp\/0714644137\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1195501201&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"browser\">The Bear Went Over The Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan<\/a>&#8220;. Then I cut and pasted the title and went to Amazon.com, put it in the search box &#8230; and the result I got was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Womens-Realities-Choices-Introduction-Collective\/dp\/0195058836\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1196032680&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"browser\">Women&#8217;s Realities, Women&#8217;s Choices: An Introduction to Women&#8217;s Studies (Hunter College Women&#8217;s Studies Collective)<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lesson there, I&#8217;m just not quite sure what it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soviet combat tactics in Afghanistan to Hunter College thinking on women&#8217;s studies&#8230;.only at Amazon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}