{"id":571,"date":"2012-01-27T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicedream.net\/?p=571"},"modified":"2012-01-27T22:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:28:49","slug":"the-language-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/the-language-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deyan Sudjic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393070816\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=nicedream04-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0393070816\">The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Design has become the sometimes cynical process of making what were once serious, unself-conscious products &#8211; watches, for example, or cameras, or even cars &#8211; into toys for adults, pandering to our fantasies about ourselves, ruthlessly tapping into our willingness to pay to be entertained or flattered by our possessions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deyan Sudjic&#8217;s The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects: Design has become the sometimes cynical process of making what were once serious, unself-conscious products &#8211; watches, for example, or cameras, or even cars &#8211; into toys for adults, pandering to our fantasies about ourselves, ruthlessly tapping into our willingness to pay to&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/the-language-of-things\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}