{"id":658,"date":"2013-08-07T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2013-08-07T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:33:12","slug":"bezos-is-buying-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2013\/08\/bezos-is-buying-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com&#8217;s Bezos is buying The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Amazon founder Jeff P. Bezos is buying The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Six years ago, Mr. Holovaty held the title \u201ceditor for editorial innovation\u201d at The Post, but left in 2007. The co-creator of the popular Web framework Django, he thinks Mr. Bezos will bring \u201cfresh, baggage-less thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">No baggage \u2014 and deep pockets \u2014 means room to try new things. Might Mr. Bezos apply tech industry concepts like frictionless payments, e-commerce integration, recommendation engines, data analytics or improved concepts for mobile reading?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\"><a title=\"NY Times story on Bezos buying TWP\" href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/15IedGQ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nyti.ms\/15IedGQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff P. Bezos is buying The Washington Post. Six years ago, Mr. Holovaty held the title \u201ceditor for editorial innovation\u201d at The Post, but left in 2007. The co-creator of the popular Web framework Django, he thinks Mr. Bezos will bring \u201cfresh, baggage-less thinking.\u201d No baggage \u2014 and deep pockets \u2014 means room &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2013\/08\/bezos-is-buying-the-washington-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon.com&#8217;s Bezos is buying The Washington Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-aC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}