{"id":1700,"date":"2006-11-23T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2006-11-23T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T01:37:42","slug":"laws-of-simplicity-on-the-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/laws-of-simplicity-on-the-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws of Simplicity on the ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up in the predawn so as to get to Swan Quarter for the 9:30 am ferry, the first to get to Ocracoke in a couple of days. Since the Nor&#8217;easter blew in and blew the ferries into port and blew the ocean over the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Ferry reading: John Maeda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lawsofsimplicity.com\/\">Laws of Simplicity<\/a>. Could be simply called &#8220;Simplicity&#8217;s Laws&#8221; (Thanks to Steve Kulp for the book suggestion).  Took less than the 2 1\/2 hour trip to read. Tucker got half way through it after I finished reading. But I&#8217;m still thinking about the ideas there. Not the shallow business book that I feared, but a smart book on design and usability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up in the predawn so as to get to Swan Quarter for the 9:30 am ferry, the first to get to Ocracoke in a couple of days. Since the Nor&#8217;easter blew in and blew the ferries into port and blew the ocean over the highway. Ferry reading: John Maeda&#8217;s Laws of Simplicity. Could be simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}