{"id":1601,"date":"2004-12-11T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/12\/11\/ordering_over_amazon"},"modified":"2004-12-11T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-11T19:12:00","slug":"ordering_over_amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/12\/11\/ordering_over_amazon","title":{"rendered":"Ordering over Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ordered a book on computer programming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se\/?page=publications&#038;sub=practicalqt\">Practical Qt<\/a>, from Amazon.  The thing is, I had to order it from Amazon in Germany (amazon.de), making as best use I could of my very rusty German (I took an A-level in the subject, but only got a D) to order a book which is published in Sweden and written in English (albeit by a German author).  I was pretty sure that this book is in English, because the cover image is entirely in English, but I could not find this book either in the British or American Amazon sites.  Nor could I find any way of changing the language on the German site.  But I could log in with my user ID and password which I registered on the UK site.  So if the German site knows about me, why doesn&#8217;t the English site know about English-language books available from Amazon in Germany?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ordered a book on computer programming, Practical Qt, from Amazon. The thing is, I had to order it from Amazon in Germany (amazon.de), making as best use I could of my very&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-pP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}