{"id":57,"date":"2005-08-24T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:54","slug":"paris-is-my-kind-of-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Paris is my kind of town&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCaught the link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/ap\/20050819\/ap_en_ot\/book_machines\">AP story<\/a> over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillandquire.com\/blog\/\">Quill and Quire blog<\/a>. How great is this?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\">PARIS &#8211; Readers craving Homer, Baudelaire or Lewis Carroll in the middle of the night can get a quick fix at one of the French capital&#8217;s five newly installed book vending machines.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .] Stocked with 25 of Maxi-Livres best-selling titles, the machines cover the gamut of literary genres and tastes. Classics like &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; by Homer and Carroll&#8217;s &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221; share the limited shelf space with such practical must-haves as &#8220;100 Delicious Couscous&#8221; and &#8220;Verb Conjugations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our biggest vending machine sellers are &#8216;The Wok Cookbook&#8217; and a French-English dictionary,&#8221; said Chambon, who added that poet Charles Baudelaire&#8217;s &#8220;Les Fleurs du Mal&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;The Flowers of Evil&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d also is &#8220;very popular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether they fall into the category of high culture or low, all books cost a modest $2.45.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, I have more than enough books waiting to be read on my shelf if I ever need a late-night reading fix, but wouldn&#8217;t it be cool to be able to grab a cheap copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleursdumal.org\/\">Les Fleurs du mal<\/a> on the run?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught the link to this AP story over at the Quill and Quire blog. How great is this? PARIS &#8211; Readers craving Homer, Baudelaire or Lewis Carroll in the middle of the night can get a quick fix at one of the French capital&#8217;s five newly installed book vending machines. [. . .] Stocked with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}