{"id":25,"date":"2009-11-10T22:02:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T05:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2009-11-10T22:02:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T05:02:49","slug":"its-a-beautiful-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/its-a-beautiful-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s a Beautiful Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may have mentioned this on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/alanpa\">the old blog<\/a>, but I\u2019m pretty sure I haven\u2019t mentioned it here yet. O\u2019Reilly media recently released Beautiful Testing \u2013 a collection of essays from a variety of testing professionals (including yours truly).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596159825\/preview\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/covers.oreilly.com\/images\/9780596159825\/cat.gif\" alt=\"Book cover of Beautiful Testing\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I received my copy over the weekend (much to the annoyance, I\u2019m sure, of several other authors who are about to rebel against the empire if their copies don\u2019t show up soon). I\u2019m happy to have mine, and although I read the entire book in digital format, I\u2019ve been flipping through it off and on for the last 3 days. I\u2019m thrilled to be a part of it, but I have to tell you that I\u2019m more excited after reading it again and finally holding it in my hands. The variety of information, styles, and knowledge is fascinating \u2013 each one opening up different possibilities and questions to ponder. It\u2019s a fun read that I hope you check out. Best yet, the proceeds from the book all go to <a href=\"http:\/\/nothingbutnets.net\/\">buying mosquito nets<\/a> to help prevent malaria in Africa \u2013 what a great opportunity to get some practical testing advice and help out those in need!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have mentioned this on the old blog, but I\u2019m pretty sure I haven\u2019t mentioned it here yet. O\u2019Reilly media recently released Beautiful Testing \u2013 a collection of essays from a variety of testing professionals (including yours truly). I received my copy over the weekend (much to the annoyance, I\u2019m sure, of several other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}